Around 1500 BC, Celtic tribes settled in the area.

Around 1500, oil paint replaced tempera in Italy.

Around 1500 the area was inhabited by different tribes of the Karib language family, more precisely the Mocanae sub-family, including:

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 1500 BC several waves of Aryan immigration took place in north west India.

Around 1500 the area that included the future Point Pleasant was the ceremonial meeting place of the Lenape Indians, who called it the " Land of Tall Timber ".

Around 1500 the ships on the Aller already had a capacity of about 60 tons.

Around 1500 it became the custom for ships to fly the flag of their home country to identify their nationality.

Around 1500, to distinguish it from the Canton of Schwyz, Schwyz town was often called Kilchgassen, which meant the village around the church but not the surrounding villages.

Around 1500 many people in Nidwalden worked as mercenary soldiers.

Around 1500 many people in Nidwalden worked as mercenary soldiers.

Around 1500, a small group of Luo known as the Biito-Luo led by a Chief called Labongo whose full title became Isingoma Labongo Rukidi ( sometimes named as Mpuga Rukidi ), encountered Bantu-speaking peoples living in the area of Bunyoro.

Around 1878 he was spending about ₤ 1500 a year on his ornithological surveys.

Around 3000 of Föhr's 8700 people speak Fering ( 1500 of them being native speakers ), constituting a third of all North Frisian speakers.

Around 1500 BCE, groups of agrarians with ceramic traditions came to the region from the lowlands.

Around 2005, Lake Mweru Wantipa's main north-east to south-west axis was about 65 km long and it was about 20 km wide, but a narrow branch extends roughly 30 km east from the northern end, giving a surface area of about 1500 km².

Around 1500 CE, during one of the most violent events in recent history at Aniakchak, an estimated 0. 75 to 1. 0 km3 of material destroyed a preexisting edifice at Half Cone and inundated most of the caldera floor with pyroclastic flows, surges, and fallout many meters thick.

Around 1500, due to excessive hunting, again provoked by the fact that the Sami had to pay taxes to Norway, Sweden and Russia, the number of reindeer started to decrease.

Around the year 1500 a local typesetter developed the " Schwabacher " font.

Around 1500 BC, 2-3 metre menhirs were erected.

Around 1500, Mouton seems to have become more aware of chords and harmonic feeling, probably due to his encounter with Italian music.

Around the year 1500 in his novel The Adventures of Esplandián, he writes:

Around 1500 BCE it was absorbed into the Egyptian Empire, but rebellions continued for centuries.

Around 1500 BC Thutmose III claimed Cyprus and imposed a tax on the island.

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 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.

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 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).

Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.

Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.

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 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.

Around the 17th and 16th centuries BC most of the older centres had been overrun.

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 900 – 600 BC Moturiki Island was settled.

Around 3000 BC, iron was a scarce and precious metal in the Near East.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians.

Around 10200 BC, the first fully developed Neolithic cultures belonging to the phase Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) appeared in the fertile crescent.

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

Around 9000 BC during the PPNA, the world's first town, Jericho, appeared in the Levant.

Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.

Around 700 BC, they appear to have developed systems of social organization that were the precursors of the Inca civilization.

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

Around 340 BC, the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia ventured from Greece to Western Europe and Great Britain.

Around 500 BC Sri Lankans

Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.

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