Around this time, Europeans began whaling in the area, and on 16 October 1839, William Wakefield of the New Zealand Company arrived in the Kapiti region to purchase land for permanent European settlement.

Around 1839, European settlers were able to move into the region.

Around 2, 280 convicts were sent to the settlement between 1824 – 1839 and at the end of 1836 the convict population numbered 337.

* November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To ( located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border ), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides ( the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22 ).

Around 1401 both town and castle suffered damage by the forces of Owain Glyndŵr, although the castle was listed as defensible against the Welsh in 1403.

Around 1715 the city suffered a large fire, and was subsequently rebuilt, by its then owner, Józef Czartoryski.

Around 1580, the church of Saint Nicholas suffered heavy damage from roving iconoclasts.

Around 1735, the area around Kingston suffered an epidemic of a fever and canker called throat distemper.

Around 1931 the company suffered from a series of financial difficulties that led to the collapse of the group of companies.

Around two square miles were ablaze in an arc around the ship, eleven neighbouring vessels were sunk or sinking and the emergency personnel at the site suffered heavy losses.

Around this time, the Hittite civilization suffered serious disruption and cities from Troy to Gaza were destroyed.

Around 1358 – 60, the heavy stone keep again suffered from subsidence and the south-eastern lobe cracked from top to bottom.

Additionally, Tony tells Adriana ( in " Irregular Around the Margins ") that Livia suffered from Irritable Bowel Syndrome all her life.

Around 1833 he suffered from a complaint which the doctors first thought was pneumonia.

Around the time he was thirteen, Tom Jr. suffered for six years with what might now be called clinical depression.

Around the same time, Lynn also suffered a broken ankle, taking him out of action.

Around 1996 and 1997, a tremendous forest fire burning from the south of Ymittos headed for Koropi, some of its groves were burnt, mostly forests suffered destruction from the fire's fury.

Around 1510, Le Puy suffered the Plague.

Around the same time it suffered from great famine.

Around this time, Alcott also first expressed his public disdain for slavery.

Around this time, he started to share a home with Heather Stoney, an actress he had first met ten years earlier.

Around 1503 – 1505 he produced the first seventeen of a set illustrating the Life of the Virgin, which he did not finish for some years.

Around 1511 or earlier, he travelled down the river and south into the Alps, where the scenery moved him so deeply that he became the first landscape painter in the modern sense, making him the leader of the Danube School, a circle that pioneered landscape as an independent genre, in southern Germany.

Around the same time, in France, Charles-Louis Havas extended the services of his news agency, Havas to include advertisement brokerage, making it the first French group to organize.

That same year Dutch rapper Extince released his first record: Rap Around The Clock.

Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.

He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets ( inspired by Halley's Comet ) and million selling hits such as, " Rock Around the Clock ", " See You Later Alligator ", and " Shake Rattle and Roll ".

The anonymous sleeve notes accompanying the 1956 Decca album " Rock Around The Clock " describe Haley's early life and career thus: " Bill got his first professional job at the age of 13, playing and entertaining at an auction for the fee of $ 1 a night.

" 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.

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

Carson City's first modern bus system, Jump Around Carson, or JAC, opened to the public.

Around two million years ago the first of many continental glaciers of the Laurentide Ice Sheet moved southward from the Hudson Bay area, initiating the Pleistocene glaciation.

Around the late 14th century AD, European powdermakers first began adding liquid during grinding to improve mixing, reduce dust, and with it the risk of explosion.

Around 1439, Johannes Gutenberg, a citizen of Mainz, was the first European to use movable type printing and became the global inventor of the printing press, thereby starting the Printing Revolution.

Around 1820, Charles Xavier Thomas created the first successful, mass-produced mechanical calculator, the Thomas Arithmometer, that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

Around 1. 8 million years ago, Homo ergaster first appeared in the fossil record in Africa.

Around 1427, the name zu Gutenberg, after the family house in Mainz, is documented to have been used for the first time.

His second album, 1986's The Secret Value of Daydreaming was panned by critics, but reached number 32 on the Billboard Magazines album chart, and produced the single " Stick Around ", which was his first # 1 single on the U. S. Album Rock Tracks chart.

Around the same time the Derby-based clockmaker John Whitehurst became a friend, first of Boulton and subsequently of Darwin, through his business supplying clock movements to Boulton's ormolu manufacturing operation.

It was after the veteran TV globetrotter Alan Whicker and journalist Miles Kington turned down presenting the first of these, Around the World in 80 Days, that gave Palin the opportunity to present his first and subsequent travel shows.

( Exception: the first book, Around the World in 80 Days, contains some pictures by Pao but most are by other photographers.

* 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release " Rock Around the Clock ", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.