Around the excavated city of Ebla in northern Syria, an Italian mission led by Prof. Paolo Matthiae discovered evidence in 1975 of a great Semitic empire, spreading from the Red Sea north to Turkey and east to Mesopotamia and thriving from 2500 to 2400 BCE.

Around 2500 BC, the Sumerians began using leather, affixed by copper studs, on chariot wheels.

Around 2500 BC, Pitted Ware starts to appear in Åland.

Around the year 2500 of the Third Age, Grór son of Dáin I founded the Iron Hills as an independent kingdom after the Dwarves were exiled from the Grey Mountains to the west because of attacks by Cold-drakes seeking the vast wealth of the mountains, which had resulted in the death of the king Dáin I.

Around 2500 BCE, the Ancient Egyptians made reference to a " people of the trees " that could have been the Mbuti.

Around 1860 there shall have been around 2500 Norwegians there.

Around 12 hectares of lawns were replanted, and over 2500 trees and plants, including mango, lemon, neem, hibiscus and jasmine cuttings, were planted in the gardens.

Around 2500 – 3000 metres below the surface, but considerably deeper near the Alps, the drillings have hit the crystalline basement.

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 300 BCE, it appears that a group from the Gaulish Parisii tribe took over East Yorkshire, establishing the highly distinctive Arras culture ; and from around 150-100 BCE, groups of Belgae began to control significant parts of the South.

Around 930 BCE, the kingdom split into a southern Kingdom of Judah and a northern Kingdom of Israel.

Around 1900 BCE they were replaced by angular harps with verti-cal ( fig.

Around 5500 BCE the Halafian culture appeared in the Levant, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, based upon dryland agriculture.

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

Around 7000 BCE, the settlers of the Ethiopian highlands domesticated donkeys, and by 4000 BCE domesticated donkeys had spread to southwest Asia.

Around 1000 BCE, Bantu migrants had reached the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Around 5300 BCE ,-provably-pottery was present in Finland.

Around 9600 BCE the droughts and cold of the Younger Dryas Stadial had come to an end, making it possible for Natufian groups to extend the duration of their stay, eventually leading to year round habitation and permanent settlement.

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

Around 125 BCE, the Greco-Bactrian king Heliocles, son of Eucratides, fled from the Yuezhi invasion of Bactria and relocated to Gandhara, pushing the Indo-Greeks east of the Jhelum River.

Around 19 BCE, Herod the Great further expanded the Mount and rebuilt the temple.

Around 19 BCE Herod the Great began a massive expansion project on the Temple Mount.

Around the 5th century BCE, a fully Hellenised and influential image of Cybele, by Agoracritos, was set up in the Athenian agora.

Around 107 BCE a Han princess married to the Usun Hunmo composed a song that called the Wusun country a Sky ( Tian ) country, and in China the Wusun horses ( Usun ma ) were called heavenly horses ( Tian ma ).

Around the 16th century BCE, Judaism developed as the first major monotheistic religion.

Around the date 2700 BCE, production of bronze was common in locales where the necessary materials could be assembled for smelting, heating, and working the metal.

Around 2, 000 BCE nomadic groups here began to be replaced by sedentary peoples who formed farming villages in an area then known as Itzcuincuitlapilco, of which the municipality of Pachuca is a part.

Around 1500 BCE, groups of agrarians with ceramic traditions came to the region from the lowlands.

Around 442 BCE, new comic contests were officially included in the Lenaia, though plays may have been performed there earlier on an informal basis.

Around 150 cane toads were introduced to Oahu in Hawaii in 1932, and the population swelled to 105, 517 after 17 months.

Around 21 – 28 days after birth, the young begin to emerge from the den, and by 35 days, they are fully weaned.

Around the year 197, Rome divided Britannia into two provinces, Britannia Superior and Britannia Inferior ; sometime after 305, Britannia was further divided, and made into an imperial diocese.

" Around four days later, an army of well-trained Georgian troops arrived to the town after hearing of Gurgīn's death but Mirwais and his Afghan forces successfully held off the town.

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

Around 40 % of mosques were destroyed in 1998-99, and 140 Orthodox churches were reported to have been destroyed or damaged in the six weeks after the withdrawal of Serbian forces, and around 30 in another outburst of violence in 2004.

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.

Around the middle of the 13th century, various legends developed that, after Richard's capture, his minstrel Blondel travelled Europe from castle to castle, loudly singing a song known only to the two of them ( they had composed it together ).

Around that time, Paramount was sold to Viacom, making Voyager the first Star Trek TV series to premiere after the sale concluded.

Around age seven or eight, he was brought by his mother to Tallulah, Louisiana, after his parents separated.

Around the same time following their defeat after the hunt for " spiders " in the Grim Hunt storyline, the Kravinoff Family are also currently residing in the Savage Land.

Around the time of the marriage, Sir Michael ’ s nephew, barrister Robert Audley, welcomes back to England his old friend, George Talboys, who has returned after three years of gold prospecting in Australia.

Around 10, 000 years ago, after the Ice Age, only a few islets were visible in the Yoldia Sea, heights that today form the highest peaks of the area that is today known as Kauniainen.

The original version of the Todd-AO used a frame rate of 30 per second, 25 % faster than the 24 frames per second that was ( and is ) the standard ; this was changed after the second film – Around the World in 80 Days because of the need to produce ( 24 frame / sec ) 35 mm reduction prints from the Todd-AO 65mm negative.

Around 350 BC, Greeks of Marseille founded a permanent settlement and called it Nikaia, after Nike, the goddess of victory.

Around 1883, outlaw Doc Holliday moved to Leadville, shortly after the gun fight at the O. K.

: For the movie named after the song, see Rock Around the Clock ( film ).

According to the Haley biographies Bill Haley by John Swenson and Rock Around the Clock by Dawson, the song was offered to Haley in the wake of his first national success " Crazy Man, Crazy " in 1953, after being copyrighted with the U. S. Library of Congress on March 31.

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 25 BC, he sailed up the Nile until reaching Philae, after which point there is little record of his proceedings until 17 AD.

Around 3, 000 BC, the Neolithic Dapenkeng culture ( named after a site in Taibei county ) abruptly appeared and quickly spread around the coast of the island.

Around 451 B. C., a decemvir of the Roman Republic, Appius Claudius Crassus begins to lust after Verginia, a plebeian girl betrothed to a former tribune, Lucius Icilius.

Around the beginning of the twentieth century, a gambler named John McCabe arrives in the town of Presbyterian Church ( named after its only substantial building, a largely unfrequented chapel ), in the northwest United States.

Around 1150 Robert d ' Aguiló repopulated the region of Reus, after receiving it on 3 June 1154.