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 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 20th century the study of tensors was reformulated more abstractly.

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 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 9th century Frankish identity gradually changed from an ethnic identity to a national identity.

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

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.