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Around 1439, Gutenberg was involved in a financial misadventure making polished metal mirrors ( which were believed to capture holy light from religious relics ) for sale to pilgrims to Aachen: in 1439 the city was planning to exhibit its collection of relics from Emperor Charlemagne but the event was delayed by one year due to a severe flood and the capital already spent could not be repaid.
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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.
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Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg developed a printing press, which allowed works of literature to spread more quickly.
Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.
Around 1450, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and independently developed a movable type system in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould.
Around 1440 AD, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and this marked another period of information proliferation.
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* 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.
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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.
Adorno also became increasingly involved with the publishing house of Peter Suhrkamp, inducing the latter to publish Benjamin ’ s Berlin Childhood Around 1900, Kracauer ’ s writings and a two-volume edition of Benjamin ’ s writings.
Around that time, he became involved in union activities and held several important union posts.
Around 1280, Adolf became involved in the Nassau-Eppstein Feud with the Lords of Eppstein, in which the city of Wiesbaden was devastated and Sonnenberg Castle destroyed.
Around 1850, he was involved in a hoax about a weed that would turn black people white.
Around this time in his career, he became involved in earthquake engineering through development of building codes for earthquake prone areas.
Around 1948 he started to get involved in political issues, taking part in the popular protests against the rise of the bus tariffs.
Around this time Judith became romantically involved with Woodhull Hospital clinical psychologist Manos Zacharioudakis ; she and her daughter lived with him for four years, until early 1999.
Around this time, she was also involved in a scandal involving fellow literary critic Edgar Allan Poe, who had been carrying on a public flirtation with the married poet Frances Sargent Osgood.
Around the same time she became involved with Koichi Mashimo's anime studio Bee Train and their first popular project, Noir.
Around 75 years later, Jerusalem's forces were likely involved in an indecisive battle against the Neo-Assyrian King Shalmaneser III in the Battle of Qarqar.
Around July 1866, there was a shooting that involved one African getting beaten severely and another being shot and killed.
Around that time, the French Navy was involved in a multitude of actions around the world.
Around 1902 several ministers of the South Union Association of United Baptists became involved in the holiness movement.
Around this time was when AT & T got involved in radio.
Around this time the brigade was also involved in combating the Dutch Waffen-SS volunteer formation the Landstorm Nederland.
Around the same time, Francis discovers illegal activities in Thomas ' financial records, and forces Thomas to get involved in his conflict with Eric -- and we eventually learn that Francis ' obsession with Christina has much more complex roots than it first appears.
Around this time, he became involved in a dispute with Indian team coach Greg Chappell over several misunderstandings.
Around the same time, allegations came that Ganguly was romantically involved with South Indian actress Nagma, something he denied.
Around the year 2000, Sitiawan residents began to be involved in swiftlet bird breeding activities.
Around the same time, Tsaava was involved in negotiations with a group of Georgian refugees from Abkhazia that had taken hostages.
Around 500 of the Seediq involved in the Wushe Incident surrendered and were subsequently confined to a village near Wushe.
Around 2001, he was involved in two separate paternity cases involving models Elizabeth Hurley and Lisa Bonder and their babies.
Around 1880 Caroline Rémy became involved with Jules Vallès ' socialist publication, Cri du Peuple.
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