Around 525 he married in Constantinople his mistress Theodora, who was by profession a courtesan about 20 years his junior.

* March 20 – Evan Hunter's movie adaptation of the novel Blackboard Jungle premieres in the United States, featuring the famous single, Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and His Comets.

Around 15, 000 – 20, 000 Roman soldiers must have died ; not only Varus, but also many of his officers are said to have taken their own lives by falling on their swords in the approved manner.

Around 20, 000 books and journals, and 5, 000 images, were destroyed.

Around 20 minutes into the season 2 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, " Pen Pals ," the senior staff has a philosophical discussion regarding the Prime Directive.

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

Around 1880, rickshaws appeared in India, first in Simla and then, 20 years later, in Calcutta ( now Kolkata ).

* "( We're Gonna ) Rock Around the Clock " – US R ' n ' B No. 3 then # 1 ( 8 weeks ), Billboard, US ; # 1 ( 7 weeks ), Cashbox, 06 / 1955 ; # 1, UK, 10 / 1955 ; UK recharts # 5 09 / 1956 ; # 24, 12 / 1956 ; No. 25 01 / 1957 ; No. 20 04 / 1968 ; No. 34 05 / 1968 ; No. 12 UK then No. 39 US, 04 / 1974

Around 20, 000 would have been Eastern Abenaki, another 10, 000 would have been Western Abenaki, and the last 10, 000 would have been Maritime Abenaki.

Around 20 droves took place between 1931 and 1959 when the final droving run was completed.

Around 20 % of Irish people are affected by SAD, according to a survey conducted in 2007.

Around 20, 000 troops had been in Ireland since 1689, commanded by Schomberg.

Around 25 percent of undergraduates are minorities, and 20 percent are African-American.

Around 20: 00, with the Presidential Guard hopelessly outnumbered, Diệm and Nhu hurriedly packed and escaped the palace, with two loyalists: Cao Xuân Vy, head of Nhu's Republican Youth, and Air Force Lieutenant Ðỗ Thơ, Diệm's aide-de-camp.

Around 1970 it was found that the root contains up to 20 % inulin, a polysaccharide similar to starch.

Her first album for Arista, Coming Around Again ( 1987 ), gave Simon another international hit with the title track ( which was featured in the film Heartburn ), returning her to the Billboard Pop Top 20 and the U. K. Top 10 ( It also garnered her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ).

Around 20 flowers are produced in a dense, rounded, umbel-shaped inflorescence, or flower-head, 1 – 2 cm in diameter.

Around 1270, de Molay went to the East ( Outremer ), though little is remembered of his activities for the next 20 years.

Around 1490 he went to Venice to learn the art of printing, and in 1498 he petitioned the Doge for the exclusive right to print music for the next 20 years.

Around the end of 1757 Taylor returned to Lancashire as divinity tutor ( including moral philosophy ) in Warrington Academy, opened 20 October 1757.

Around the year 1800 the Tangram puzzle from China became popular, and 20 years later it had spread through Europe and America.

Around 1850, the average share of government spending in GDP in the advanced capitalist economies was around 5 %; in 1870, a bit above 8 %; on the eve of World War I, just under 10 %; just before the outbreak of World War II, around 20 %; by 1950, nearly 30 %; and today the average is around 35-40 %.

Around 20. 000 visitors in 2005.

Around the latter half of the sixteenth century, ashigaru holding pikes ( nagae yari ) with length of 4. 5 to 6. 5 m ( 15 to 20 feet ) became the main forces in armies.

* Around 1700: 20 % of the inhabitants of Berlin were French immigrants and their cultural influence was important.

Around 70, 000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

Around 338 BC the orator Hyperides ( fragment 13 ) claimed that there were 150, 000 slaves in Attica, but this figure is probably not more than an impression: slaves outnumbered those of citizen stock but did not swamp them.

Around 15 percent of employment in Sedgemoor is provided by tourism, but within Cheddar it is estimated to employ as many as 1, 000 people.

Around 8, 000 years ago the dire wolf became extinct.

Around 10, 000 Allied troops arrived in Darwin in the early 1940s at the outset of World War II, in order to defend Australia's northern coastline.

Around 10, 000 years ago, the lake level dropped dramatically, probably to levels even lower than today.

Around 50, 000 BP modern human culture started to evolve more rapidly.

Around 200, 000 passengers use the tram network each weekday and within the inner city of Helsinki, trams have established a position as the main form of public transport.

Around 8, 000-9, 000 Finnish Reds defended Helsinki ; their best troops, however, were located in the more northern main front of the 1918 war.

Around 8, 000 Reds were captured.

Around 100, 000 Goths were reportedly killed in battle, and Ariaricus, son of the King of the Goths, was captured.

Around 100, 000 Dutch Jews died in the Holocaust and many others died as well.

Around 800, 000 years ago, newcomers had settled at Gesher Bnot Yaakov in the northern Rift, introducing the cleaver tradition.

Around 40, 000 years ago, the species ' expansion out of Africa launched the colonization of the planet by modern human beings.

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

Around 136, 000 were some of the 250, 000 displaced Jews of World War II.

:: international: satellite earth stations-3 Intelsat, 1 Arabsat, and 29 land and maritime Inmarsat terminals ; fiber-optic cable to Saudi Arabia and microwave radio relay link with Egypt and Syria ; connection to international submarine cable FLAG ( Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe ); participant in MEDARABTEL ; international links total about 4, 000.

Around 5, 000 BP the waters of the Saimaa Lake penetrated Salpausselkä and formed a new outlet, River Vuoksi, entering Lake Ladoga in the northwestern corner and raising its level by 1 – 2 m.

Around 25, 000 spectators watched international boxing on 1 October 1993, at the National Stadium with a World Boxing Council ( WBC ) Heavyweight title bout between Lennox Lewis and Frank Bruno.

Around 7, 000 people are responsible for the engineering and design of Opel vehicles at the International Technical Development Center ( ITDC ) and Opel Design Center in Rüsselsheim.

Around 2, 000 demonstrations were held during the eight months of the Second Republic.

Around 1. 4 million passengers and 15, 000 to 17, 000 tonnes of cargo pass through it each year.

* 1652 – Around 15, 000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.