Around 650 Saint Amand founded two abbeys in Ghent: the Saint Peter Abbey ( Blandinium ) and the Saint Bavo Abbey.

Around 650 the Frisians came back, destroyed the Frankish church in Utrecht, and the Frisian king established his court there.

Around 650 the Frankish king Sigebert III renewed the tithe from all royal estates in the district for the Speyer church under bishop Principus.

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 1747 he had a son by a Miss Edington, and though he gave his child James Smeaton Hutton financial assistance, he had little to do with the boy who went on to become a post-office clerk in London.

Around the city were little villages where the fishermen of Cardo lived.

Around 1943, presumably to reduce the risk of Luftwaffe bombing, a new dispersed design office was opened at Fairmile Manor in Cobham, Surrey ; little is known of this establishment and nothing survives there today.

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 77 % of the people profess the Catholic faith, a little less than 1 % are adherents of Sunni Islam, while others are irreligious.

* The Greatest American Hero ( 1981 – 1983 ): Most of Ralph Hinkley, Bill Maxwell, and Pam Davidson's encounters with the aliens, or " little green guys ", take place in Palmdale, with the exception of the episode " Don't Mess Around with Jim ".

Around the middle of the century plans were being made in Washington that would bring great change to the little town of Forsyth.

Around the same time, Pettibon adopted his new surname, from the nickname petit bon ( good little one ) given to him by his father.

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

Around the middle of the 2nd century BC, the Sibylline Oracles mention the " land of Gog and Magog " as " situated in the midst of Aethiopian rivers ", but in a second mention links it with the " Marsians and Dacians ", in eastern Europe ; in both cases they are about to receive " woe ," and according to Boe, " there can be little doubt about the direct use of Ezekiel's oracles " in their composition.

Around 2, 000 vehicles were produced before the company ( Rodacar AD ) ceased production in April 1996 due to high import costs of the components and little demand for the cars.

He also has a little nephew called " The Little Monster from Around the Corner ", as seen in Goody Two Shoes.

Around Biloxi, coastal casinos and the shipyards experienced little from the storm.

Around 1694, she became a Christian Universalist, rejecting the " Doctrine that hath been preached of an endless Misery and Torment " which had " wrought little effect in frightening or terrifying ' em from their evil Courses.

Around 22 April, Rejtan and the remaining colleagues left the Sejm chamber after about 36 hours of having little sleep and food ( Rejtan is said to have refused to eat in the Sejm chamber, saying it would disrespect it ).

Around this time, Eschscholtz discovered three species of Family Gerridae, Order Hemiptera, raising attention to the species even though little of their biology was known.

Around 14th century, there was little difference between those called knights and those referred to as szlachta in Poland.

Around this little village there are plots of the natural forest of typical endemic species Uapaca bojeri, commonly known as " tapia forest ".

Around Nathu La and the Tibetan side, the region has little vegetation besides scattered shrubs.

Around ten km from Kodachadri is Hidlumane Waterfalls and only a bridle path is there to reach this waterfalls-involving a little adventurous trekking. The Hidlumane Falls.

Art Around Adams is a local community art event where unique and talented artists showcase their work inside and outside interesting little businesses and spaces along Adams Avenue.

Around the city of Libourne, 10 appellations produce wines dominated by Merlot with very little Cabernet Sauvignon, the two most famous being Saint-Émilion and Pomerol.

Around this time, or perhaps a little before ( c. 297 ) Ge, then fourteen years old, entered into the tutelage of Zheng Yin, an accomplished classical scholar who had turned to esoteric studies later in life.

With Casablanca doing little to promote the LP, she switched to AVI Records for the double A-side 12 " single " Have a Little Faith in Me " / " No Time to Turn Around " which prompted the label to release it as an LP, backed with Rick Gianatos ' extended remixes of her 1976 tracks " My Head's in the Stars " and " Love's Not Just an Illusion ".