Around the 9th century CE, the central Sudanic Empire of Kanem, with its capital at Njimi, was founded by the Kanuri-speaking nomads.

Around the 9th century the Igbo people of what is now southeastern Nigeria, develop bronze casts of humans, animals and mythical creatures.

Around 750 the Benedictine Monastery of St. Leodegar was founded, which was later acquired by Murbach Abbey in Alsace in the middle of the 9th century, and by this time the area had become known as Luciaria.

Around the 9th century the Elder Welfs became counts of the Schussengau and established their seat in Altdorf.

* " The Hans Christian Andersen Collection at Northwestern: Illustrated Children's Books from Around the World: July 27th-September 9th, 2004 "-multimedia exhibit by Northwestern University Library including much information about the HCA Award and its 2004 rendition in particular

Around this time the divisions of the AIF underwent a reorganisation as the decision was made to send the more established brigades to Greece ; as a result both the 18th and 25th Brigades were transferred from the 9th to the 7th Division.

Around the 9th century neumes began to become shorthand mnemonic aids for the proper melodic recitation of chant.

Around the start of the 9th century, it was supposedly attacked by the Rus ' chieftain, Bravlin.

Around the middle of the 9th century, relations between the Sanjaya and the Sailendra deteriorated.

Around the 5th century, Indian clerks were already finding new ways of recording the contents of the Abacus.

Around 2000, an expedition led by the Japanese Daisuke Takahashi, searching for Selkirk's camp on the island ( juan fernandez ), found part of an early eighteenth ( or late seventeenth ) century nautical instrument that almost certainly belonged to Selkirk.

Around the end of the 1st century, the church's organization becomes clearer in historical documents.

Around the turn of the 4th century, as Memphis was continuing to decline in importance, the Romans established a fortress town along the east bank of the Nile.

Around the 12th century AD, the Sultanate of Ifat was established in Djibouti and northern Somalia, eastern Ethiopia with its capital at Zeila in northern Somalia.

Around AD 75, work on the civitas forum and basilica had commenced on the site of the former principia and by the late 2nd century the civitas walls had been completed.

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 the turn of the century, Munch worked to finish the " Frieze ".

Around the late 14th century AD, European powdermakers first began adding liquid during grinding to improve mixing, reduce dust, and with it the risk of explosion.

Around the middle of the 14th century, the Black Death ravaged Germany and Europe ( from the Dance of Death by Michael Wolgemut ).

Around the transition from the 15th to the 16th century, Albrecht Dürer from Nuremberg established his reputation across Europe as painter, printmaker, mathematician, engraver, and theorist when he was still in his twenties and secured his reputation as one of the most important figures of the Northern Renaissance.

Around the turn of the century the Young Poland cultural movement, centered on Galicia and taking advantage of the conducive to liberal expression milieu there, was the source of Poland's finest artistic and literary productions.

Around the turn of the 20th century, techniques began to modernise, starting with the Irish-American Michael Sweeney's Eastern cut-off.

Around the 18th century, the modern state of Nepal was formed by Gurkha rulers.

Around the 1st century CE there were several small Jewish sects: the Pharisees, Sadducees, Zealots, Essenes, and Christians.

Around the turn from the 18th to the 19th century an increase of the number of Catholics was observed, because military personnel had been moved from West Prussia to the town.

Around the turn of the 20th century the development of higher education provided opportunities for women.

Around the turn of the century it began to be widely used in spark-gap transmitters and medical electrotherapy equipment.

Around the 12th century, the Franciscan, Carmelite, Dominican, Servite Order ( see Servants of Mary ) and Augustinian mendicant orders chose to live in city convents among the people instead of being secluded in monasteries.

Around the 14th century, the demand for weapons, armour, stirrups, and horseshoes greatly increased the demand for iron.

Around the beginning of the 20th century astronomers noticed a small apparent " variation of latitude ," as determined for a fixed point on Earth from the observation of stars.

Scholars of the 19th century tended to interpret these titles as the names of distinct works covering separate voyages ; for example, Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology hypothesizes a voyage to Britain and Thule written about in " Ocean " and another from Cadiz to the Don river, written about in " Sail Around.

Around the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the Slaby-Arco wireless system was developed by Adolf Slaby and Georg von Arco.

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

Around the year 370, Frankish invaders drove out the ruling Romans, who had settle the area around the 2nd century AD.

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 500 AD, Old Frankish evolved to Old Dutch, a West Germanic language that was spoken by the Franks and to a lesser extent by people living in the regions conquered by the Franks.

Around 800, under Charlemagne, the Frankish Empire covered a great deal of Europe.

Around 500 the territory was settled by Slavs, in 547 by the Lombards, in 568-c. 800 by the Avars, at that time under Frankish and Slavic influence, then between 880 and 894 it was part of Great Moravia, and then briefly under East Frankish dominance.

Around the year 500, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Kreuznach was a royal village of the newly emerging Frankish Empire.

Around Saint Peter ’ s Church ( Peterskirche ) arose the settlement of Wichenkirchen ( or Wizzinkirchin ) in Frankish times as a thorpe ( one-street village ).

Around 900 AD, the Frankish Salhof of Oberlahnstein came into the possession of the Archbishopric of Mainz.

Around 500, after the victory of the Franks over the Alamanni, Hohenasperg became the seat of the Frankish Lord and the Frankish Thing, the legislative assembly.