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 12, 500 Tasmanians recreationally fish for blacklip and greenlip abalone.

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 500 people lived in the town in 1086 ( at the time of the Domesday Book ).

Around 500 BC Sri Lankans

Around 40 floats with more than 2, 500 participants parade in Sitges.

Around 500 BC, they formed the powerful Odrysian Kingdom, which subsequently declined and Thracian tribes fell under Macedonian, Celtic and Roman domination.

Around 500 Freed Jamaican slaves made the journey to Freetown in 1800 through the Sierra Leone Company.

Around 500 years ago, Khas from the Karnali-Bheri-Seti basin migrated eastward, bypassing inhospitable Kham highlands to settle in lower valleys of the Gandaki basin that were well suited to rice cultivation.

Around 500 million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands shaped like an arch collided with proto North America and rode over the top of the North American plate.

Around 500 AD the Athabascan speaking Gwich ’ in people ( often called Neets ' aii Gwich ' in or “ those who dwell to the north ”) came into the area with seasonal hunting and fishing camps.

Around 500 B. C., a band of Shoshonean-speaking Indians established settlements in what is now the San Gabriel Valley.

Around 500 BC, a band of Shoshonean-speaking Indians established settlements in what is now the San Gabriel Valley.

Around 500 A. D., farming supplanted hunting as the major food source for the people known as " Basketmakers ".

Around 500 million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands crashed into proto North America, riding over the North American Plate and creating the New Jersey Highlands, which start in the western portion of the township.

Around 500 chiefs, including at least 13 females, signed the Treaty of Waitangi.

Around the same time, Guy Hands, CEO of Terra Firma Capital Partners, came to EMI with restructuring plans to cut between 1, 500 and 2, 000 jobs and to reduce costs by £ 200 million a year.

Around 500 BC the Fritzens-Sanzeno culture, also known as culture of the Raeti, after the goddess Raetia who according to roman authors was the main deity of the people inhabiting the region, succeeds both the Laugen-Melaun culture of the southern and the Urnfield culture of the northern part of Tyrol.

* Sainsbury's Organic ( SO Organic ): Around 500 lines of food and drink which are derived from sources free from fertiliser or pesticides.

Around 1, 500 are business leaders, drawn from its members, 1, 000 of the world's top companies.

Around 500 the population again increased dramatically and many large new buildings were constructed, mostly in the Rio Bec style of Maya architecture.

Around 400 houses were destroyed, 15 streets incinerated and a total of 1, 500 homes were damaged, leaving 1, 250 people homeless – essentially obliterating the neighbourhood of Roombeek.

* Around midnight UTC ( early morning local time ), reports said that 1, 500 Turkish troops had moved into northern Iraq.

Around the time of Augustus ( c. 5 ) each cohort of the Praetorians numbered 1, 000 men, increasing to 1, 500 men at some time.

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 ".

" 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.

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 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 two million people visit the canal each year on pleasure cruises and related activities.

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

Around 2 million people visit this fun fair every year.

Around 15 million years ago, a collision between Australia and Southeast Asia allowed the varanids to move into what is now the Indonesian archipelago, extending their range as far east as the island of Timor.

Around 2. 5 million men + woman were ' immobilized in the interior ' as part of reserve armies.

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

Around 5. 9 million years ago, the connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean along the Betic and Rifan Corridor was progressively restricted until its total closure, effectively causing the salinity of the Mediterranean to periodically fall within the gypsum and salt deposition range, during what is known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

Around one million Australians walked the bridge in a symbolic gesture of crossing a divide.

Around 2 million years ago, Homo habilis is believed to have constructed the first man-made structure in East Africa, consisting of simple arrangements of stones to hold branches of trees in position.

Around 2. 2 million Africans died during these voyages where they were packed into tight, unsanitary spaces on ships for months at a time.

Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.

Sales of " Rock Around the Clock " started slow but eventually sold an estimated 25 million copies ( per the Guinness Book of World Records ) and marked the arrival of a cultural shift.

Around 10 million tourists visit the Gold Coast area every year: of 849, 114 international visitors, 3, 468, 000 domestic overnight visitors and 5, 366, 000 daytrip visitors.

Around 18 million francs were paid to the émigrés per year.

Around a million depositors were immediately affected by this action.

In October 1966, the song was released as a single, giving The Beach Boys their third U. S. number-one hit — alongside " I Get Around " and " Help Me, Rhonda "— and it sold over a million copies.

Around 70 million years ago, the kakapo diverged from the genus Nestor.

Around four hundred fifty million years ago, a chain of volcanic islands collided with proto North America.

Around four hundred million years ago a small continent that was long and thin collided with proto North America.