Around 6000 actors auditioned worldwide for the part: Quan was cast after his brother auditioned for the role.

Around 1863, Nadar built a huge ( 6000 m³ ) balloon named Le Géant (" The Giant "), thereby inspiring Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon.

Around 494 BC, Cleomenes invaded and defeated Argos at Sepeia killing a large number of Argives, Herodotus says 6000 ( probably an exaggeration ), by burning them to death in a sacred grove of Argus.

Around 22000 to 48000 Ottoman forces against 6000 to 8500 Maltese forces, the Ottomans failed to conquer Malta, sustaining for about 10000 losses, including one of the greatest Muslim corsair generals of the time, Dragut and were repulsed.

Around 6000 BC, Neolithic settlements appear all over Egypt.

Around 6000 BC, evidence of domesticated animals and plants ( emmer and einkorn wheat ) appears in the archaeological record at the cave.

Around two thirds of Northern Ireland's seaborne trade, and a quarter of that for Ireland as a whole, is handled at the port which receives over 6000 vessels each year.

Around 250 BC, Archimedes was commissioned by the king to find a way to check the purity of the gold in a crown, leading to the famous bath-house shouting of " Eureka!

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 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 446 BC, they were given the authority to care for the decrees of the senate ( senatus consulta ).

Around 60 BC, a group of Boians joined the Helvetians ' ill-fated attempt to conquer land in western Gaul and were defeated by Julius Caesar, along with their allies, in the battle of Bibracte.

Around 60 BC they clashed with the rising power of the Dacians under their king Burebista and were defeated.

Around the 8th century BC, a kingdom known as D ' mt was established in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia, with its capital at Yeha in northern Ethiopia.

Around 330 BC, Aristotle maintained on the basis of physical theory and observational evidence that the Earth was spherical.

Around the 17th and 16th centuries BC most of the older centres had been overrun.

Around 300 BC, they were pushed inland by the Deutero-Malays, an Iron Age or Bronze Age people descended partly from the Chams of Cambodia and Vietnam.

Around 1500 BC Fiji was settled by Polynesian seafarers.

Around 900 – 600 BC Moturiki Island was settled.

Around 3000 BC, iron was a scarce and precious metal in the Near East.

Around 713 BC, the semi-mythical successor of Romulus, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February, allowing the calendar to equal a standard lunar year ( 354 days ).

Around 150 BC, Mesopotamia was under the control of the Parthians.

Around 10200 BC, the first fully developed Neolithic cultures belonging to the phase Pre-Pottery Neolithic A ( PPNA ) appeared in the fertile crescent.

Around 10, 700 to 9400 BC, a settlement was established in Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometers north of Aleppo.

Around 9000 BC during the PPNA, the world's first town, Jericho, appeared in the Levant.

Around 6400 BC the Halaf culture appeared in Lebanon, Israel and Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, and Northern Mesopotamia and subsisted on dryland agriculture.

Around 700 BC, they appear to have developed systems of social organization that were the precursors of the Inca civilization.

Around this time, Hasdrubal became Carthaginian commander in Iberia ( 229 BC ).

Around 340 BC, the Greek navigator Pytheas of Massalia ventured from Greece to Western Europe and Great Britain.

Around 500 BC Sri Lankans

Around 1720 BC, Semitic Canaanite nomads called Hyksos took over Egypt, ended the Middle Kingdom, severed links with Kush, and destroyed the forts along the Nile River.

Around 750 BC, a Kushite king called Kashta conquered Upper Egypt and became ruler of Thebes until approximately 740 BC.

Around the same time, Newton's contemporaries Robert Hooke and Christian Huygens — and later Augustin-Jean Fresnel — mathematically refined the wave viewpoint, showing that if light traveled at different speeds in different media ( such as water and air ), refraction could be easily explained as the medium-dependent propagation of light waves.

Around 1000 BC a wave of immigrants settled in the upper Tiber valley as far as the Adriatic Sea, and also in the neighborhood of Assisi.

Around the same time, the first postmodern wave of industrial noise music appeared with Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, and NON ( aka Boyd Rice ).

Around 2000 BC, a new wave of people arrived on Møn, the Stridsøksekulturen ( the battleaxe people ).

Around the same time, a live LP, split with commune-dwelling hippy band Here and Now was released ( a document of their tour together ), marking the band's movement further away from the ever more predictable punk / new wave scene.

Around 1370 AD another wave of immigration assisted by Kabaka Kimera, who was the son of Omulangira Kalemeera.

Around this time there was a wave of trade union militancy in New Zealand, and during this period Hunter became more politically assertive.

* Around the crest of the wave, adiabatic expansion cooling can form a cloud in shape of a lens ( lenticularis ).

Around 2400 BC the first wave of Indo-Aryans dialect speakers might have occurred, and the second wave around ca 1000 – 700 BC.

Around this time, a new wave of post-hardcore bands began to emerge onto the scene that incorporated more pop punk and alternative rock styles into their music.

Bill Haley's " Rock Around the Clock " ( 1955 ) became the first rock and roll song to top Billboard magazine's main sales and airplay charts, and opened the door worldwide for this new wave of popular culture.

Around the year 2000, there was a wave of attempts to dope synthetic CVD diamond films by sulfur aiming at n-type conductivity with low activation energy.

Around 500 BC the Cruthin lost their dominant position in Irish society when the country was invaded by a second wave of P-Celtic speakers.