Around 1200, Andrew married Gertrude, a daughter of Berthold IV, Duke of Merania.

Around 1200 the port became the main point of departure for colonists leaving for the Baltic territories conquered by the Livonian Order and, later, Teutonic Order.

Around 1200 the Turks and Caicos Islands were resettled by Classical Taínos from Hispaniola.

Around 1200 BC the Dorians, another Greek-speaking people, followed from Epirus.

Around 1200 the Frangipani family took over the Colosseum and fortified it, apparently using it as a castle.

Around 1973, all Brazilian Beetles ( 1300 and 1500 series ) were updated with the 1968-up sheet metal, bumpers, and four-lug rims ; although the five-stud rims and " bugeye " headlights were produced as late as 1972 ( the base VW 1200 and 1300 manufactured in Brazil was similar to the 1964 European / U. S. 1200 until the 1970 model year but came with vented wheels since the mid-1960s ).

Around 1200 this homestead was in the possession of a provost of the Bishopric of Utrecht.

Around 1200 A. D., a small stone church was built.

Around the year 1200, a military fort was built at the current location of the Ter Laken castle, on Booischot ’ s territory.

Around 1200 started the building of the cathedral that is dedicated to the saint.

Around 1200 large numbers of German settlers came to Lusatia in the course of the Ostsiedlung, settling in the forested areas yet not settled by the Slavs.

Around 1200 the first mention of an abbey garden appears in a document mentioning a walled garden owned by the Benedictine monks of the Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster.

Around 1200, a sharif (" tribal head ") Qatada ibn Idris seized power in Mecca and was recognized as the emir of the city by al-Adil.

Around 1200 people take part in the carnival, of which one third part from abroad.

Around 1200, a new town was developed adjacent to the older village, by either John de Busli or Robert de Vipont.

Around the year 1200, there was a tendency towards a standardized Middle High German language and spelling for the first time, based on the Franconian-Swabian language of the Hohenstaufen court.

Around 1200 the family owned wide areas on the mainland, including the Castle of Ribnik, near Karlovac.

A modified EMS VCS3 is presented as the " Harrington 1200 " automatic song-writing machine in the " Music " episode of the British comedy Look Around You.

Around the year 1200, the rival groups shared the identical but opposite goal of controlling the entire country.

Around 1200 UTC on November 17, Lenny intensified into a Category 4 hurricane while approaching the islands of the northeastern Caribbean.

Around AD 1200 the availability of prestigious imported goods including Chinese and Southeast Asian ceramics and Gujerati print-block textiles, coupled with newly discovered sources of iron ore in Luwu stimulated an agrarian revolution which expanded from the great lakes region into the lowland plains to the east, south and west of the Walennae depression.

Around 400 walkers set off, with the local member of Parliament firing a starting gun, and by the time Tiverton was reached, the party totalled about 1200 people.

Around 1200, a relatively dense population could be found on the islands of Rügen, Usedom and Wollin, around the burghs of Stettin, Köslin, Pyritz ( Pyritzer Weizacker ) and Stargard, around the Persante river ( Kolberg area ), the lower Peene river, and between Schlawe and the Leba valley.

Around this time, Agrippina became the mistress to one of Claudius ’ advisers, the former Greek Freedman Marcus Antonius Pallas.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.

Around the mid 1960s, boats made of glass-reinforced plastic, more commonly known as fibreglass, became popular, especially for recreational boats.

" 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.

Around 8, 000 years ago the dire wolf became extinct.

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 this time Zoroastrianism became the predominant religion in Persia.

Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.

DJ Lethal became a member of nu metal band Limp Bizkit, who would cover " Jump Around " at live concerts, particularly in Limp Bizkit's early years during the Family Values Tour 1998.

Around 1000 AD, cast bronze horseshoes with nail holes became common in Europe.

Around this time he was involved in the creation of the Filmliga based in Amsterdam which drew foreign filmmakers to Holland such as Alberto Cavalcanti, René Clair, Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, and Dziga Vertov who also became his friends.

Around the year 1000, when the area was under Polish rule, the stronghold became seat of the Diocese of Kołobrzeg.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

Around this fort a town gradually developed, which became the centre of a small but important state of great strategic value to France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Around 1964 Fayed entered a close relationship with Francois Duvalier and became interested in the construction of a Fayed-Duvalier oil refinery in Haiti.

Around the same time, Durand, a former student of Giovanni Battista Viotti ( 1755 – 1824 ), became a celebrated violinist.

Also that year, Abdul co-wrote the song " Spinning Around " with songwriter and producer Kara DioGuardi, who became a fellow judge on American Idol in 2009.

Around this time, Hasdrubal became Carthaginian commander in Iberia ( 229 BC ).

Around this time, some skinheads became affiliated with far right groups such as the National Front and the British Movement.

Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.

Around this time cladistics rapidly became the dominant method of classification in evolutionary biology.

Around the world, U. S. embassies and consulates became makeshift memorials as people came out to pay their respects.

Around the turn of the century, however, harmonic and metric devices became either more rigid, or much more unpredictable, and each approach had a liberating effect on rhythm, which also affected ballet.