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

Around the middle of the 1990s, demand for the TB-303 surged within the electronic dance music scene.

Around the middle of the 13th century, various legends developed that, after Richard's capture, his minstrel Blondel travelled Europe from castle to castle, loudly singing a song known only to the two of them ( they had composed it together ).

Around the middle of his career, Edison attributed the hearing impairment to being struck on the ears by a train conductor when his chemical laboratory in a boxcar caught fire and he was thrown off the train in Smiths Creek, Michigan, along with his apparatus and chemicals.

Around the island Djurö, in the middle of the lake, lies the Djurö archipelago, which has been given national park status as Djurö National Park.

Around Lully's time, it became a common practice to score this middle section for a trio ( such as two oboes and a bassoon, as is common in Lully ).

He first released " Too Far to Turn Around " in 1960 as part of The Upfronts before going out on his own in the middle of the decade.

Around the middle of the century, wealthy Yankees such as the Wetmore family also began constructing larger mansions such as Chateau-sur-Mer ( 1852 ) nearby.

Around the middle of the 18th century, the form largely fell from use as the principal design of entire movements as sonata form and organic development gained prominence.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, Warren found itself in the middle of a boom in the timber industry, a resource which continues to be important to the city's economy, although the lumber yards that were vital to Warren throughout the past century are no longer in operation.

Around the middle of the 10th century the allodium Meerssen was the property of queen Gerberga, the daughter of king Henry I.

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

Around this same time, Kanawha County Schools converted from the grade 7-9 junior high system to the grade 6-8 middle school system, and the 1969 building now houses East Bank Middle School.

Around the middle 18th century, inventors started designing mechanical fans.

Around the middle of July, the jet stream settles into a pattern which, in the majority of years, holds reasonably steady until the end of August.

Around the middle of the 16th century, some Italian critics such as Gian Giorgio Trissino complained that the poem failed to observe the unity of action as defined by Aristotle, by having multiple plots rather than a single main story.

Around the middle of the 19th century, Naomasa Nabeshima strove to set right the domain's financial affairs, reduce the number of government officials, and encourage local industry such as Arita porcelain, green tea, and coal.

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 middle of the twentieth century, sintered-plate Ni – Cd batteries became increasingly popular.

Around that time, he had adopted the professional name of " Ray Stevens ," which was inspired by his middle name and his mother's maiden name.

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 2000 middle and combined schools were in place in the early 1980s.

Around the middle 19th century Japanese Chindonya started to be seen using their skills for advertising, and these street performers are still occasionally seen in Japan.

Around the middle of the fifth century AD the caves of the island became home to several hermits escaping from the Vandals of Genseric, the most important of whom was St. Mamilian.

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

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

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.

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

Around the turn of the 20th century, Enlightenment philosophy was challenged in various quarters.

Around the turn of the 20th century, there were serious labor disputes in the mines near Telluride.

Around the turn of the 20th century, violence towards new immigrants in Omaha often erupted out of suspicions and fears.

Around the late 19th and early 20th centuries, most towns, organizations, theaters, and even companies would have their own band.

Around the turn of the 20th century Anenecuilco was an indigenous Nahuatl speaking community ; there are eyewitness accounts stating that Emiliano Zapata spoke Nahuatl fluently.

Around the turn of the 20th century, an Ohio native, C W Krotz, bought of woodland around the Atchafalaya Basin and set up a sawmill to trim the trees hauled out of the basin.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Houck ’ s various lines were consolidated under the name of St. Louis & Gulf Railroad Co. Later Mr. Houck sold out to a syndicate headed by Newman Erb, who in 1902 sold out to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company.

Around the turn of the 20th century, further examinations for " Non-Foundation " Scholarships were introduced.

Around the turn from the 19th to the 20th century, Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie donated over $ 60 million, which was a vast fortune in 20th-century dollars, to build over 2, 811 free public library buildings in the United States.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologists recovered from oases in the Tarim Basin a number of manuscripts written in two closely related but previously unknown Indo-European languages.

;" Around the turn of the 20th century in Athens and Piraeus musicians adapted the saz to their needs, replacing the tied frets with metal frets like those of mandolins and guitars, and in the process abandoning the 1 / 4 tone system for the Western equal-tempered tuned chromatic scale.

Around the turn of the 20th century, cattlemen from Cannonville and Henrieville used the basin as a winter pasture.

Around the beginning of the 20th century it was used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores, although this use is now superseded by superior antiseptics.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, Dahlem was established as a centre for research of the highest calibre.

Around the turn of the 20th century, the university began to expand significantly, hiring professors from eastern schools to teach in the newly organized professional colleges while also producing groundbreaking research in agricultural sciences.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Sacred Harp singing entered a period of conflict over the issue of traditionalism.

Around the beginning of the 20th century Ukrainians and Belorussians had formed the plurality populations in the rural regions of the Kresy, where some towns, in particular Lviv and Vilnius had Polish majority.

Around the turn of the 20th century, the Convention was composed of over 450 churches with about 44, 000 members.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, two Catalan composers -- Enrique Granados and Isaac Albéniz -- became the most famous composers in Spain.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Chinese immigration was perceived as a threat to the living standards of whites in North America and other similar nations.