Around 1560, an Italian couple named Simonio and Lyndiana Bernacotti made what are likely the first blueprints for the modern, wood-encased carpentry pencil.

Around 1560 Adam was quietly married to Jane ( c1540 – 1595 ), daughter of James Purdon Born 1516 in Kirklington, Cumberland, England.

Around 1560 Yú Dàyóu travelled to Shaolin Monastery to see for himself its monks ' fighting techniques, but found them disappointing.

Around 1560, the majority of the population of Castres converted to Protestantism.

Around 1560, a wealthy Milanese nobleman, Marco de Sadis-Cusani, having established himself in Rome, was joined by a number of zealous associates, both priests and laymen, and pledged to instruct both children and adults in Christian doctrine.

Around 1560, Philips wrote his Confession: Recollections of the Years 1533-1536, which was published after his death by Cornelius Claesz.

Around 1560 a decrease in temperature resulted in another disappointing harvest.

* Around 980 – 982, Eric the Red discovered Greenland, geographically and geologically a part of the Americas.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Around the same time Kid Rock formed his back up band Twisted Brown Trucker, later recruiting Joseph " Joe C ." Calleja whom he met at a 1994 concert as part of the group.

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

Around 969, Emperor Nicephorus II Phocas rebuilt the fortifications on the acropolis and in part of the city.

Around 2. 5 million men + woman were ' immobilized in the interior ' as part of reserve armies.

Around 1600 a Mani still ruled the Loko kingdom ( the area north of Port Loko Creek ) and another ruled the upper part of the south shore of the Freetown estuary.

* Michael Palin visited the Suez Canal in 1988 as part of his TV adventure series, Around the World in 80 Days.

Around the turn of the 21st century, DSLAMs became an important part of telephone company inside plant.

Around 300 BC, a state called Jin arose in the southern part of the Korean peninsula.

Around the estuary of the Tocantins the great plateau has disappeared, to give place to a part of the forest-covered, half submerged alluvial plain, which extends far to the north-east and west.

Around the year 2000 AD, several footbridges were added along the Thames, either as part of the Thames Path or in commemoration of the Millennium.

Around AD 200 there were about 20, 000 people living in this city, now part of the much smaller Augst.

Rock Is Fifty also hosted additional celebrations in Los Angeles in July, 2005, as part of a " Rock Around the Clock-a-Thon " to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the date the song reached the No. 1 spot on the American charts, as well as to observe what would have been Haley's 80th birthday.

In March and July 2005, the members of the 1954 – 55 group, now billed as simply The Comets after decades of controversy over the use of the name, made several high-profile concert appearances in New York City and Los Angeles organized by Martin Lewis as part of celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of rock and roll, the release of Blackboard Jungle, the 50th anniversary of " Rock Around the Clock " hitting Number 1, and the 80th birthday of Bill Haley.

Around the same time period, Ron Resch patented some tessellation patterns as part of his explorations into kinetic sculpture and developable surfaces, although his work was not known by the origami community until the 1980s.

Around 972 the island became controlled by Poland, under prince Mieszko I, however, it has not been established if Wolin became part of Poland, or if it was a fief.

He first released " Too Far to Turn Around " in 1960 as part of The Upfronts before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.

Around 814 there is a written reference to Meginhardeswich, which is now, as the present-day Meijnerswijk, part of Arnhem.

Around 1206 King John permitted the monks to enclose and clear part of the nearby Perry woods.

Around the arched tops of the windows are areas known as the lunettes which contain the Ancestors of Christ, painted by Michelangelo as part of the scheme for the ceiling.

Around 6000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part: Quan was cast after his brother auditioned for the role.

Around the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945, the Oberth family moved to the town of Feucht, near Nuremberg, Germany, which became part of the American Zone of occupied Germany, and also the location of the high-level war-crimes trials of the surviving Nazi leaders.

Around the age of seventeen, he kills over 200 men on the base, and then cuts off his own face, this last act being interpreted as part of his efforts to reject his father.

Around 1900 he became the manager of a real estate firm in the then semi-rural suburb of Auburn.

Around 1987 many real estate promoters of the neighborhood and newer residents described the boundaries as within East 34th Street, East 42nd Street, Madison Avenue, and the East River ; in 1999, Frank P. Vardy, the demographer for the City Planning Commission, said that the traditional boundary is within East 34th Street, East 40th Street, Madison Avenue, and Third Avenue.

Around 1910, two Santa Cruz real estate agents, the brothers Frank and David Wilson, purchased and subdivided several of the old 19th century wheat farms.

Around this time he became close friends with Scott Joplin ; Joplin's will would name Sweatman as executor of his estate.

Around this time, the treasurer of the IRFU, Harry Sheppard, acquired the lease from Dunlop and when Sheppard died in 1906, the union paid his estate £ 200 for the lease.

Helen had acquired it years earlier in the estate of the publisher of Poems and Rhymes Around the World whom she had killed with the culling spell.

Around 1330 Thomas Perot became Lord of the Manor of the estate where Parrotts Farm is today.

Around 1800, Colzium and the nearby Cairns estate were owned for some period by Michael Linning, Esq., Clerk to the Signet, who lived later in Edinburgh and Chryston, Lanarkshire.

Around 1871 the Fernham estate in Paignton was purchased by Isaac Merritt Singer, the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.

Around the turn of the Millennium or possible a few years either side the last large building project in Cubley happened-the construction of a new housing estate to the south of the houses in Cubley.

Around 1964, Keyes resumed working for his father in a real estate company targeted at foreign investors.

Around a fifth of the births registered in the parish in the mid-18th century are listed as being in the Carnoustie estate.

Around the same time, the River Kennet ( along the north side of the estate ) was made navigable between Reading and Newbury.

Around 1800 Admiral William Cornwallis leased and later purchased the small Newlands estate in Milford.

Around the estate are many carparks and grassy areas with old apple and pear trees ; these are all that remain of the gardens of the 1920s houses that the staff vacated in the 1980s for demolition.

Around 1966 the section of the course on Darby's Hill was sold and part of it was used to build a private housing estate originally named Oakham Green.

Around the mid-15th century, the Inca emperor Pachacuti conquered and razed Ollantaytambo ; the town and the nearby region were incorporated into his personal estate.

Around 1722, King John V designated Macedo as a Quinta, equivalent to a small estate, indicating the size of this region.

Around a third of the Kwik Save estate was transformed, with each store having between £ 300, 000 and £ 1, 000, 000 invested in the improvements.

Around 1720 Jacob Roeters came into possession of the estate and he renamed it Trompenburg and had a gilded plaque with an ode by Gerard Brandt in memory of Tromp installed over the entrance in 1725.

Around this time suggestions were made in the national press that the estate would be a suitable residence for the Prince of Wales.

Around the base of the hill are the hamlets of Bignall Hill, Waterhays, and Red Street, and a new housing estate.

Around 1798, William Madocks bought the Tan-yr-Allt estate near Penmorfa Marsh.

Around half of that industrial estate is accessible only via one section of Munibung Road, a 2-lane road between two T-intersections ( Torrens Avenue and Mitchell Road ) which experience frequent crashes.