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.

Around the year 1600 Stevin, with Prince Maurice of Orange and twenty-six others, made use of it on the beach between Scheveningen and Petten.

Around 1600 AD, Giambattista della Porta added a lens to the pinhole camera.

Around 1600, William Gilbert made a map of the Moon that names Mare Imbrium " Regio Magna Orientalis " ( the Large Eastern Region ).

Around 1600 a number of experimenters used steam to power small fountains working something on the principle of a coffee percolator.

Around 1600 Tvedestrand was mainly a harbour for the Berge and Tveite farms ’ boats, hence the name Tvedestrand ( strand means beach or coast in Norwegian ).

* Around 1600: Berlin-Cölln had 12, 000 inhabitants.

Around the year 1600, the French writing system became dominant in the Wallonia.

Around 1600 flower paintings in oils became something of a craze ; Karel van Mander painted some works himself, and records that other Northern Mannerist artists such as Cornelis van Haarlem also did so.

The school was founded in Tiverton in 1604, and relocated to its present location on the outskirts of town in 1882, where it functions to the present day as an independent school Around 1600 there were two major fires in the town, the first in 1596, allegedly started in a frying pan, destroyed most of the town.

Around 1600 BCE Jie was defeated by Shang Tang, bringing an end to the Xia Dynasty, that lasted about 500 years, and a rise to the new Shang Dynasty.

Around 1600, four of these along the West coast had been again recovered, but Wieringen, to the south-east of Texel, remained an island up to the 20th century.

Around 3. 5 lakh people have pledged their eyes to CCT so far, giving 1600 people eyesight through CCT.

Around 1600, copper was mined ; but mining ceased at the end of the 18th century.

Around 70 peaks exceed 1600 m.

Around 1600 AD, the Jesuits in Spain, Italy and Germany studied and codified the techniques used to produce brandy or grappa, and their methods were used until recent times.

Around the year 1600 whaling became a major industry, with certain families such as the Oda family profiting from the trade.

Around 1600 a new group of composers, many of whom had studied in Italy, brought new ideas to the chorale motet.

Around 1600 Duke Francis II restored Neuhaus Castle.

The tracks were all recorded in a few weeks ' span at the end of the year 1984 after Prince had finished sessions for Around the World in a Day, and just before he started to record music for Sheila E .' s album Romance 1600 and his own album Parade.

Around 1600, Portuguese and Dutch traders were bringing examples of Indian chintz into Europe.

Around 1600 BCE a walled city was built at Yanshi, about 6 km northeast of Erlitou.

Around 1600, the English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon surmised: " Heat itself, its essence and quiddity is motion and nothing else.

Around 1600, the humanism, with his rediscovery of the ancient cultures and ideals spread from Italy throughout Europe.

Around the same time, his mansion in Wisconsin was destroyed by a nor ' easter.

Around a hundred years later Richard Gery extended the site and formed a mansion ( since demolished ).

Around 1802, Brant moved there and built a mansion that was intended to be a half-scale version of Johnson Hall.

Around the time of the outbreak of the Spanish American war in 1898, the reporters covering the White House were invited into the mansion itself and provided with space to write, conduct interviews, and generally cover the White 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 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.

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.