Around 1840, Volney B. Palmer established the roots of the modern day advertising agency in Philadelphia.

" Around 1840 the German nobles of the Governorate of Livonia devised the term " Balts " to mean themselves, the German upper classes of Livonia, excluding the Latvian and Estonian lower classes.

Around 1840 – 41, German meteorologist Ludwig Kaemtz added stratocumulus as a mostly detached low-cloud genus of limited convection with both cumuliform and stratiform characteristics similar to upper-level cirrocumulus.

Around 1840, Fort DeSoto was established in present-day Hernando County in the northeast edge of present-day Brooksville to protect settlers in the area from Native Americans.

Around 1840 many emigrated to America — Michigan in particular.

Around 1840, two of seven recorded millionaires in the United States were Thomaston sea captains.

Around 1830, Planche was introduced by the famous writer Alfred de Vigny to François Buloz, director of the Revue des deux mondes, and contributed to this journal until 1840.

Around 1840, Cox took up oil painting, studying under W. J. Miller.

Around 1840 James Pownall, one of the founder members of the silk manufacturing firm of Bickam and Pownall was tenant.

Around 1840 only two medical schools existed in India, one at Calcutta and another at Madras.

Around 1840 Drummond left the property vacant and put it up for auction, but it was unsold and lay empty for two years.

Around 1840, German missionaries started linguistic research into the Gbe languages.

Around 1840, a public well was opened in the market square.

Around 1840 coal surface mining began in Petroşani, Vulcan and Petrila.

Around 1835, he became acquainted with Abraham Lincoln and soon became involved in local politics, being elected to the Illinois House of Representatives on July 1, 1837, and serving on the Illinois Senate from 1840 to 1844.

Around 1840, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller painted a Still Life with Silver Vessels and Red-Figure Bell Krater.

Around 1840 he joined the English Freemasonry, and in October 1847 was admitted to Polish national lodge in London.

Around 1840 the Westport Canal was built which joined the river at Langport.

Around 1840, the North Midland Railway, the Midland Counties Railway and the Birmingham and Derby Railway set up workshops to the rear of Derby station.

Around 1840, Scottish magician John Henry Anderson began demonstrating the gun trick in theatres throughout Britain.

Around 1840 ( the exact date depends upon the denomination ), extra drapery was added to Liberty's left elbow.

Around 1840, he began to compose intensively, writing his first operas and several other stage works, as well as sacred music and secular cantatas.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

Around this time, he attempted to secure a position with the Tyler administration, claiming he was a member of the Whig Party.

Around the same time a group of volunteers led by Franjo Malgaj attempted to take control of southern Carinthia.

Around 343 BC, Rome and Capua attempted to form an alliance, a first step toward a closer unity.

Around this same time Dano-Norwegian ships, joined by ships from various other European countries, began journeying to Greenland to hunt bowhead whales, though no formal recolonization was attempted.

Around 260 FE, a rebel leader named Gilmer attempted a coup, in the process sacking Trantor and forcing the Imperial family to flee to the nearby world of Delicass, renamed Neotrantor.

Around 1570, Spanish Jesuits priests attempted to establish what was called the Ajacan Mission across the York River from Gloucester.

Around 1833, a French-Canadian veteran of the War of 1812 named Ben Napier attempted to appropriate Cunningham Island and nearby Put-in-Bay as his own through squatters rights.

Around 1880 the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway attempted to build a line through Collins, which then had about 2, 000 inhabitants.

Around 2001, a new organization, the Anarchist Black Cross Network, began and attempted to present themselves as an alternative to the ABC Federation.

Around this time Johnny Nee renamed the Fans ' Association team the Evansville Pros and attempted to schedule games against the Hammond Pros, Dayton Triangles, and the Louisville Brecks.

Around the time of Eminem's first record deal, Proof attempted to bring new life to D12.

Around 600 however, tensions flared between the Armenian and Georgian Churches, as the Armenian Church attempted to assert prominence in the Caucasus, in both hierarchical and doctrinal matters, whereas the Catholicos of Mtskheta, Kirion I, leaned towards the Byzantine, Chalcedonian side of the debate, as Kartli was once again seeking imperial support against the Sassanid Empire, who had abolished the Kingdom in 580.

Around this time, allegedly a member of the Whiteboys ( a secret agrarian organisation ), he was wounded in a fight with soldiers and, fleeing to London to escape arrest, attempted to eke out a living by writing.

Around the same time, realizing that the deal for Presley might fall through due to the cost of the contract, Parker attempted to once again sell Tommy Sands to RCA.

Around 1915 the group American Association for Labor Legislation attempted to introduce a medical insurance bill to some state legislatures.

Around noon, Connaway attempted to bring back to periscope depth, seeking another opportunity to attack.

Around 50 years prior to the start of Suikoden III, Harmonia attempted to extend its control over the Grasslands, and eventually invaded.

Around 1880, the Indian Ocean Fruit Company attempted to plant palm trees on the island, but all seedlings were washed into the sea during a storm.

Around 1135, Alice again attempted to take control of Antioch, negotiating with the Byzantine Empire for a husband for Constance ; the future emperor Manuel Comnenus was a candidate.

Around the same time, he attempted to have her disinherited in order to adopt his male secretary, suggesting that she was actually the child of Syrie Maugham and Henry Wellcome.

Around the time the South Korean government attempted to curb democracy by putting forward the Yusin Constitution in late 1972, Ko became very active in the democracy movement and led efforts to improve the political situation in South Korea, while still writing prolifically and being sent to prison four times ( 1974, 1979, 1980 and 1989 ).

Around 1985, the descendants of Henry Willis attempted to subdivide the land around the Castle, to be used for construction of several town houses, and turn the Castle into a wedding reception centre.

Around 2004, Oliver Kitzman, the district attorney of Waller County, attempted to challenge the voting rights of PVAMU students.