Around 1500 BC Fiji was settled by Polynesian seafarers.

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 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 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 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.

Around 930 BCE, the kingdom split into a southern Kingdom of Judah and a northern Kingdom of Israel.

Around 1900 BCE they were replaced by angular harps with verti-cal ( fig.

Around 5500 BCE the Halafian culture appeared in the Levant, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, based upon dryland agriculture.

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

Around 7000 BCE, the settlers of the Ethiopian highlands domesticated donkeys, and by 4000 BCE domesticated donkeys had spread to southwest Asia.

Around 1000 BCE, Bantu migrants had reached the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Around 5300 BCE ,-provably-pottery was present in Finland.

Around 9600 BCE the droughts and cold of the Younger Dryas Stadial had come to an end, making it possible for Natufian groups to extend the duration of their stay, eventually leading to year round habitation and permanent settlement.

Around 250 BCE, the eastern part of the Seleucid Kingdom broke away to form the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom.

Around 125 BCE, the Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles, son of Eucratides, fled from the Yuezhi invasion of Bactria and relocated to Gandhara, pushing the Indo-Greeks east of the Jhelum River.

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 2500 BCE, after the climate changed, becoming much colder and wetter, the settlement may have been abandoned by its inhabitants.

Around 19 BCE, Herod the Great further expanded the Mount and rebuilt the temple.

Around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount.

Around the 5th century BCE, a fully Hellenised and influential image of Cybele, by Agoracritos, was set up in the Athenian agora.

Around 107 BCE a Han princess married to the Usun Hunmo composed a song that called the Wusun country a Sky ( Tian ) country, and in China the Wusun horses ( Usun ma ) were called heavenly horses ( Tian ma ).

Around the 16th century BCE, Judaism developed as the first major monotheistic religion.

Around the date 2700 BCE, production of bronze was common in locales where the necessary materials could be assembled for smelting, heating, and working the metal.

Around 2, 000 BCE nomadic groups here began to be replaced by sedentary peoples who formed farming villages in an area then known as Itzcuincuitlapilco, of which the municipality of Pachuca is a part.

Around 442 BCE, new comic contests were officially included in the Lenaia, though plays may have been performed there earlier on an informal basis.