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 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.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

* Rights to Mike Todd's Around the World in Eighty Days and the UA-distributed Lorimar films are now with Warner Bros .. Warner Communications bought the rights to Days from Elizabeth Taylor, Todd's widow, and successor company Time Warner bought the Lorimar library after they bought out the company in 1990.

Around Year 9 of his reign, Seti appointed his son Ramesses II as the Crown Prince and his chosen successor, but the evidence for a coregency between the two kings is likely illusory.

Around this time, Muhammad Ahmad first met Abdallahi bin Muhammad al-Ta ' aishi, who was to become his chief deputy and successor in the years to come.

Around 140, His successor Antoninus Pius ( 138-161 ) exempted Jews who circumcised their sons, though not their servants or slaves, from the decree against circumcision.

Around 1110, a Sweyne's successor, Robert Fitzsweyne, also known as Robert d ' Essex, divided his manor in two, the part to the west being Prittlewell, the site of Earl's Hall and the rest, consisting of thirty acres ( 120, 000 m² ) of land, the church at Prittlewell, being given to the Cluniac Priory of St Pancras, Lewes for the purpose of setting up Prittlewell Priory.

Around 1129 – 30 Kulothunga-I's able successor Vikrama Chola would also re-conquer Kalinga along with Vengi, eastern and southern parts of Gangavadi from the Hoysalas and re-establish links with Kadaram, Kataha, Srivijaya etc.

Around AD 400, the dissident group split off from Vulcan society and began the long journey to the planets Romulus and Remus.

Around 400 AD, the dissident group split off from Vulcan society and began the long journey to the planet Romulus.

Around 1960, O ' Brien came up with a proposed treatment, King Kong vs. Frankenstein, where Kong would fight against a giant version of Frankenstein's monster in San Francisco.

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

Around 1119, the French knight Hugues de Payens approached King Baldwin II of Jerusalem with the proposal of creating a monastic order for the protection of these pilgrims.

Around that time, Robert Stillington, the bishop of Bath and Wells, informed Richard that Edward IV's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville had been invalid due to an earlier union by the King with Eleanor Butler, making Edward V and his siblings illegitimate.

Around 1046 BC, Wen's son, King Wu of Zhou, led an army of 45, 000 men and 300 chariots across the Yellow River and defeated the Shang King Di Xin at the Battle of Muye, marking the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty.

" Around 853 AD, Æthelwulf and his son-in-law, Burgred, King of Mercia, defeated Cyngen ap Cadell of Wales and made the Welsh subject to him.

Around nine in the morning of 16 June, King Henry's forward troops, commanded by the Earl of Oxford, encountered the Yorkist army assembled in a single block, on a brow of a hill surrounded on three sides by the River Trent at the village of East Stoke.

Around Lent of 1314, Edward Bruce, brother of the Scottish King, began the siege of Stirling Castle, which was commanded by Sir Philip Mowbray.

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Around 1324 Basarab became a vassal of King Charles I of Hungary ( 1308 – 1342 ), but later the king called him ‘ unfaithful ’ on the pretext that Basarab had occupied crown territories.

In 1983, the Police released their last studio album, Synchronicity, which spawned the hit singles " Every Breath You Take ", " Wrapped Around Your Finger ", " King of Pain " and " Synchronicity II ".

Around 1810 Hampshire Terrace, Landport Terrace, King ’ s Terrace, Jubilee Terrace and Bellevue Terrace were built adjacent to the town walls.

Around 1127, Harald went to Norway and declared he was an illegitimate son of the former King Magnus Barefoot, who had visited Ireland just before his death in 1103.

Around 1218 his father arranged his marriage with Princess Anna, daughter of King Ottokar I of Bohemia ; this union with the royal Přemyslid dynasty allowed Henry II to participate actively in international politics.

Around the end of the fifteenth century, King James IV ( ruled 1488 – 1513 ) built Holyroodhouse, by the abbey, for his principal Edinburgh residence, and the castle's role as a royal home subsequently declined.

Around 1206 King John permitted the monks to enclose and clear part of the nearby Perry woods.

Around the time of the birth of their younger son, Richard, the Prince was lured into a war on behalf of King Peter of Castile.

Around 1835 a monument to King George IV was built at the junction of Gray's Inn Road, Pentonville Road and New Road, which later became Euston Road.

Around the same period King Edward III ’ s wife, Queen Philippa is said to have dined on fish caught by Blakeney ’ s fishermen.

Around 1199, King Otto gave three golden crowns made for the three wise men as a present to the church of Cologne: " Otto rex coloniensis curiam celebrans tres coronas de auro capitibus trium magorum imposuit "; MGSS 17, 292.

She followed it up with a version of Nat " King " Cole's " Unforgettable ", and then two highly successful duets in 1960 with Brook Benton, " Baby ( You've Got What It Takes )" ( Number 5 pop, Number 1 R & B ) and " A Rockin ' Good Way ( To Mess Around and Fall in Love ) (# 7 pop, # 1 R & B ).

Around 1989, inspired by Afrika Bambaata, Barnes decided to try his hand at electronic music production, the result of which was the track Not Forgotten, released on the Rhythm King label, and More Than I Know.

Around this time, Belew also met King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp at a Steve Reich concert.