Around 1440, he executed a bust of a Young Man with a Cameo now in the Bargello, the first example of a lay bust portrait since the classical era.

Around 1440 AD, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press and this marked another period of information proliferation.

Around 1440, literary guilds called rederijkerskamers (" Chambers of Rhetoric ") arose.

Around 1440 Sesshū left Bitchū for Kyoto, a large city which was then the capital of Japan.

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 the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered evidence in 1975 of a great Semitic empire, spreading from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia and thriving from 2500 to 2400 BCE.

Around 670 the Bulgars under Kouber and Asparukh, who were also part of their empire, revolted.

Around 833 the Hungarian tribal confederacy was living in Levedia, between the Don and the Dnieper rivers, within the orbit of the Khazar empire.

Around 15 BC, the Romans under Emperor Augustus extended their empire to include the Alps and established the province of Noricum.

Around 300 BC, the Meena kingdom succumbed to the rising Mauryan empire.

Around it appear the allotments, large portions of rough and vacant land the imperial government granted to people that possessed prestige from the Portuguese empire in Brazil.

Around the year 9000 AD ( Ammon Duul ) the empire collapsed due to internal strife.

Around outer presbytery walls are placed an empire styled monuments made by sculptor Sucharda.

Around 130 BCE, at the time of Zhang Qian ’ s embassy to Central Asia, the Dayuan were described as inhabitants of a region corresponding to the Ferghana, far to the west of the Chinese empire.

Around 1450 BCE, the Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III extended his empire to that region and considered Gebel Barkal its southern limit.

Around 500 BCE, Darius I of Persia proclaimed that Aramaic would be the official language for the western half of his empire, and the Eastern Aramaic dialect of Babylon became the official standard.

Around 1809 some of the sheep farmers had the idea of driving their sheep to Paris, at that time the capital city of the empire to which they belonged, and offering them for sale.

When Namor decided to start a financial empire a short time later, Nita joined him as a member of the board of Oracle, Inc. Around Namor, Namorita was always deferential, but around the Warriors she would act tough.

Around the same time, self-made millionaire industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, who had become a principal in the Standard Oil empire, began to consider providing a sewer and water project for his hometown of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, where his family maintained a summer house.

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

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.