* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

Around 500 BCE, following the Achaemenid conquest of Mesopotamia under Darius I, Old Aramaic was adopted by the conquerors as the " vehicle for written communication between the different regions of the vast empire with its different peoples and languages.

Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!

Around 1831, when Anne was eleven, she and Emily broke away from Charlotte and Branwell to create and develop their own fantasy world, Gondal.

Around this time, he founded a group called Survivre ( To Survive ), which was dedicated to antimilitary and ecological issues.

Around 500 BC the Ur-Parthenon was dismantled to make place for a newer and grander building, the " Older Parthenon " ( often called Pro-Parthenon, " early Parthenon ").

Around the same time, on the North slope, in a cave next to the one dedicated to Pan since the classical period, a sanctuary was founded where the archons dedicated to Apollo on taking office.

Around 1250 it was mentioned as Arowa.

Around the same time, his mansion in Wisconsin was destroyed by a nor ' easter.

In 1953, a song called " Rock Around the Clock " was written for Haley.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

" The song was ' Walk Around Heaven ' and in his last words he said ' I'm going to heaven.

Around the age of eight he was sent to a country school in Alphington near Exeter to recover from a life-threatening fever.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

Around this time, the green conservative movement was sometimes referred to as the crunchy con movement, a term popularized by National Review magazine and the writings of Rod Dreher.

Around 500 million years afterward, the Moon's mantle was able to be extensively melted due to the decay of radioactive elements.

Around 190 AD under the leadership of the scholar Pantanaeus, the school of Alexandria became an important institution of religious learning, where students were taught by scholars such as Athenagoras, Clement, Didymus, and the native Egyptian Origen, who was considered the father of theology and who was also active in the field of commentary and comparative Biblical studies.

Around the same time, East Bay Ray had tried to pressure the rest of the band to sign to the major record label Polydor Records ; Biafra stated that he was prepared to leave the group if the rest of the band wanted to sign to the label, though East Bay Ray asserts that he recommended against signing with Polydor.

Around the 12th century AD, the Sultanate of Ifat was established in Djibouti and northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia with its capital at Zeila in northern Somalia.

Around this time, toxicologist David Peakall was measuring DDE levels in the eggs of peregrine falcons and California condors and finding that increased levels corresponded with thinner shells.

Around this time, the county of the City of Dublin was established along with certain liberties adjacent to the city proper.

Around three million years ago, what is now the valley of the Jordan River, Dead Sea, and Wadi Arabah was repeatedly inundated by waters from the Mediterranean Sea.

Around noon Domitian, just one month short of his 45th birthday, was dead.

* Around 980 – 982, Eric the Red discovered Greenland, geographically and geologically a part of the Americas.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Around the same time Kid Rock formed his back up band Twisted Brown Trucker, later recruiting Joseph " Joe C ." Calleja whom he met at a 1994 concert as part of the group.

Around 250 BCE, the eastern part of the Seleucid Kingdom broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city.

Around 2. 5 million men + woman were ' immobilized in the interior ' as part of reserve armies.

Around 1600 a Mani still ruled the Loko kingdom ( the area north of Port Loko Creek ) and another ruled the upper part of the south shore of the Freetown estuary.

* Michael Palin visited the Suez Canal in 1988 as part of his TV adventure series, Around the World in 80 Days.

Around the turn of the 21st century, DSLAMs became an important part of telephone company inside plant.

Around 300 BC, a state called Jin arose in the southern part of the Korean peninsula.

Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.

Around the year 2000 AD, several footbridges were added along the Thames, either as part of the Thames Path or in commemoration of the Millennium.

Around AD 200 there were about 20, 000 people living in this city, now part of the much smaller Augst.

Rock Is Fifty also hosted additional celebrations in Los Angeles in July, 2005, as part of a " Rock Around the Clock-a-Thon " to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the date the song reached the No. 1 spot on the American charts, as well as to observe what would have been Haley's 80th birthday.

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

Around the same time period, Ron Resch patented some tessellation patterns as part of his explorations into kinetic sculpture and developable surfaces, although his work was not known by the origami community until the 1980s.

Around 972 the island became controlled by Poland, under prince Mieszko I, however, it has not been established if Wolin became part of Poland, or if it was a fief.

He first released " Too Far to Turn Around " in 1960 as part of The Upfronts before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.

Around 814 there is a written reference to Meginhardeswich, which is now, as the present-day Meijnerswijk, part of Arnhem.

Around 1206 King John permitted the monks to enclose and clear part of the nearby Perry woods.

Around the arched tops of the windows are areas known as the lunettes which contain the Ancestors of Christ, painted by Michelangelo as part of the scheme for the ceiling.

Around 6000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part: Quan was cast after his brother auditioned for the role.

Around the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, the Oberth family moved to the town of Feucht, near Nuremberg, Germany, which became part of the American Zone of occupied Germany, and also the location of the high-level war-crimes trials of the surviving Nazi leaders.

Around 1560 part of this estate came into the ownership of Thomas Sutton, a resident of the Tan House ( adjacent to Sutton House ).

Around the age of seventeen, he kills over 200 men on the base, and then cuts off his own face, this last act being interpreted as part of his efforts to reject his father.