Around 1160 Bishop Godfrey van Rhenen built a castle in Woerden.

Around 1360 a Kontor of the Hanseatic League was established there, now documented in a museum.

Around 1400, Hamburg forces occupied the castle grounds as a result of allegations that the Kankenas had supported piracy against the Hanseatic city.

Around the castle there was a settlement of traders and craftsmen.

Around this time they began to be visited by French explorers, fur traders, and missionaries following the St Lawrence river to seek their fortune in the new world.

Around 1600, Portuguese and Dutch traders were bringing examples of Indian chintz into Europe.

Around the end of the eighteenth century, prior to the advent of white traders in the area, the formerly woodland-oriented Chippewa moved out onto the Great Plains in pursuit of the buffalo and new beaver resources to hunt and trade.

Around 1870 traders from Boston, Massachusetts began transporting Bananas from Portland Parish, Jamaica to Boston for sale.

Around 70, 000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

Around 890, Wulfstan of Hedeby undertook a journey from Hedeby on Jutland along the Baltic Sea to the Prussian trading town of Truso.

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 the same time, due to encouragement from influential speaker Themistocles, the Athenians also constructed the Long Walls connecting their city to the Piraeus, its port, making it effectively invulnerable to attack by land.

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

Around 21 – 28 days after birth, the young begin to emerge from the den, and by 35 days, they are fully weaned.

Around 9-10 Mya during the Late Miocene, Canis, Urocyon, and Vulpes genera expanded from southwestern North America.

Around humans, chipmunks can eat cultivated grains and vegetables, and other plants from farms and gardens, so they are sometimes considered pests.

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 1900, German physicist Arthur Korn invented the Bildtelegraph, widespread in continental Europe especially, since a widely noticed transmission of a wanted-person photograph from Paris to London in 1908, used until the wider distribution of the radiofax.

Around two million years ago the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation.

Around the 9th century Frankish identity gradually changed from an ethnic identity to a national identity.

Around Perthshire, about 200 kilometres away from Aberdeen, an extremely dense cluster of four-posters occurs.

Around this time the center of political and social importance in the Low Countries started to shift from Flanders ( Bruges – Ghent ) to Brabant ( Antwerp – Brussels ), although Ghent would continue to play an important role.

Around AD 200, Clement of Alexandria noted that John's gospel was a " spiritual gospel ", distinct from the Synoptics.

Around the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death ravaged Germany and Europe ( from the Dance of Death by Michael Wolgemut ).

Around the transition from the 15th to the 16th century, Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg established his reputation across Europe as painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist when he was still in his twenties and secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

Around 300 BCE, it appears that a group from the Gaulish Parisii tribe took over East Yorkshire, establishing the highly distinctive Arras culture ; and from around 150-100 BCE, groups of Belgae began to control significant parts of the South.

Hakka cuisine, or Kejia cuisine, is the cooking style of the Hakka people, who originated in the southeastern Chinese provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, but may also be found in other parts of China and in countries with significant overseas Chinese communities .< ref > Linda Lau Anusasananan, < i > The Hakka Cookbook: Chinese Soul Food from Around the World </ i > ( University of California Press, 2012 )</ ref > There are numerous restaurants in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore serving Hakka cuisine.

Around 1120, Frederick II married Judith of Bavaria from the rival House of Welf.

Around 300 BC, they were pushed inland by the Deutero-Malays, an Iron Age or Bronze Age people descended partly from the Chams of Cambodia and Vietnam.

Around 16, 000 BCE, from the Red Sea hills to the northern Ethiopian Highlands, nuts, grasses and tubers were being collected for food.

Around 453 MYA, animals began diversifying, and many of the important groups of invertebrates diverged from one another.

Around 1840, Volney B. Palmer established the roots of the modern day advertising agency in Philadelphia.

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

Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.

Around 200, 000 passengers use the tram network each weekday and within the inner city of Helsinki, trams have established a position as the main form of public transport.

Around 10, 700 to 9400 BC, a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of Aleppo.

Around 613 an Irish monk named Gallus, a disciple and companion of Saint Columbanus, established a hermitage on the site that would become the Abbey.

Around 800 AD Charlemagne established an outpost in what is now Lower Austria, to hold back advances from Slavs and Avars from the East.

Saint Benedict established his influential monastery of Monte Cassino in the ruins of a villa at Subiaco that had belonged to Nero ; Around 590, Saint Eligius was born in a highly-placed Gallo-Roman family at the ' villa ' of Chaptelat near Limoges, in Aquitaine.

Around the time of World War I, Zhang Zuolin established himself as a powerful warlord with influence over most of Manchuria.

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.

Around 9, 000 BC the people return, and a Neolithic settlement was established, perhaps ten times as large as the earlier settlement and one of the largest at that time in the Middle East.

Around the years 1000 to 1030, Christianity became established in Norway, bringing with it the Latin alphabet.

Around 1820 an estancia ( station ) was established a few miles north on the banks of the Santa Ana River to accommodate the Mission's sizeable cattle herd.

Around 1830 Faraday established that the reactions at each of the two electrode – electrolyte interfaces provide the " seat of emf " for the voltaic cell, that is, these reactions drive the current.

Around 1840, Fort DeSoto was established in present-day Hernando County in the northeast edge of present-day Brooksville to protect settlers in the area from Native Americans.

Around this time, Alaric moved to invade Italy with his Visigoths and established positions around Milan, where Honorius lay trapped.

Around the island, Wendish / Scandinavian trade centres such as Vineta / Jomsborg and Menzlin were established.

Around 1700, country estates for several noblemen were established in the former flood plain of the river Leine.

Around the 1970s some criminals established marijuana farms.

Around 130 years later, St. Vedast ( also known as St. Vaast ) established an episcopal see in the town and a monastic community, which developed during the Carolingian period into the immensely wealthy Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast.

Around 1890, John Dexter established a trading post that became the center for swapping prospecting information for the entire Seward Peninsula.