Boxing evolved from 16th and 18th century prizefights ( detailed further down the page ), largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid 19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States.

The modern astronomical sense of " area of the celestial sphere around a specific asterism " dates to the mid 16th century.

Following the resurgence in the 14th and 15th centuries of the Gaelic nobility, the project was suspended, not to be resumed until the mid 16th century by the House of Tudor.

In the mid 16th century Russians adopted printing from Central Europe, with Ivan Fyodorov being the first known Russian printer.

In the mid 16th century occurred events of profound importance in the modern history of Sierra Leone: these were the Mane invasions.

In the first few decades of the 16th century the Senate established its precedence over the Sejm, however, from the mid 1500s onwards the Sejm became a very powerful representative body of the Szlachta or ' middle nobility '.

The Forest Finns had principally immigrated from Savonia in Eastern Finland to Dalarna, Bergslagen and other provinces in central Sweden during the late 16th and early to mid 17th centuries.

There are also some Sudovian language phrases in " Warhafftige Beschreibung der Sudawen auff Samland sambt ihren Bock heyligen und Ceremonien " – True Description of the Sudovians in Samland together with their goat sanctifications and ceremonies – written in the mid 16th century by Hieronymus Meletius.

The island was mentioned by Dean Munro who travelled the area in the mid 16th century.

Importation to the American mainland was in the mid 16th century by Hernan Cortes and Hernando de Soto, and in the mid 17th century by Sieur de La Salle.

To further strengthen its force of proof it bore the signatures of the important historical figures Antonio Valeriano and Bernardino de Sahagún which seemed to date it unequivocally to the mid 16th century around the time of the apparition.

* War between Ming dynasty and Japanese Wokous during mid 16th century

In the mid 16th century, Gabriele Falloppio ( discoverer of the fallopian tubes ), described what are now known as the lacteals as " coursing over the intestines full of yellow matter.

By the 16th century, its military use was mostly obsolete, culminating in the brief period where the oversized Zweihänder were wielded by the German Landsknechte during the early to mid 16th century.

In the mid 16th century, Elis Gruffydd recorded a legendary account of Taliesin which resembles the story of the boyhood of the Irish hero Fionn mac Cumhail and the salmon of wisdom in some respects.

* The Wawel Tapestries, ( mid 16th century ) a collection of 134 tapestries at the Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland displaying various religious, natural, and royal themes.

It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne, and from the mid 16th to the late 19th century was home to Deptford Dockyard, the first of the Royal Navy Dockyards.

Like Italian classicizing ideas in the 15th and 16th centuries, it spread through Europe in the mid to late 17th century.

The area was discovered by Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo in the mid 16th century.

The city was first settled in the mid 16th century by the Spanish.

In the area of modern-day Peru pisco production begun at the turn of the 17th century, while Peru had been producing wine for commerce since the mid 16th century ..

But there is also reference that Pisco has been produced in the Chilean cities of Santiago and La Serena in mid 16th century.

This real de a ocho or peso was minted in Spain from the mid 16th century, and even more prolifically in Spanish America, in the mints of Mexico and Peru.

After the fall of the Akkadian empire in the mid 21st century BC, the Assyrians who were the northern branch of the Akkadian people, colonised parts of the region between the 21st and mid 18th centuries BC and claimed the resources, notably silver.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

The social system of " courtly love ", as gradually elaborated by the Provençal troubadours from the mid twelfth century, soon spread.

Assyria continued to exist as a geopolitical entity until the Arab-Islamic conquest in the mid 7th century AD, and Assyrian identity, personal names and both spoken and written evolutions of Mesopotamian Aramaic ( which still contain many Akkadian loan words ) have survived among the Assyrian people from ancient times to this day.

Local cuisine patterns had established by the mid 18th century.

These were followed by significant numbers of freed Africans in the War of 1812, Irish immigrants in the mid 19th century and Dutch immigrants after World War II.

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

By the Roman period brass was being deliberately produced from metallic copper and zinc minerals using the cementation process and variations on this method continued until the mid 19th century.

By the mid late 18th century developments in cheaper zinc distillation such as John-Jaques Dony's horizontal furnaces in Belgium and the reduction of tariffs on zinc as well as demand for corrosion resistant high zinc alloys increased the popularity of speltering and as a result cementation was largely abandoned by the mid 19th century.

Southern and mid-western states also passed numerous laws to protect Sunday during the mid to late 19th century.

If the Byzantines adopted the crescent and star as a symbol of their city after the events of the mid 4th century BC, one is forced to wonder why they waited several hundred years before putting the symbol on only some of their coins.

Until the mid 19th century most boats were of all natural materials ; primarily wood although reed, bark and animal skins were also used.

By the mid 19th century, many boats had been built with iron or steel frames but still planked in wood.

In the mid 20th century aluminium gained popularity.

Since Daniel was a statesman during the Persian conquests, the Book of Daniel could have been written in a period when the Persians had their greatest influence on Aramaic, believed to be in the mid 6th century BC.

In the mid 3rd century, the Bastarnae were part of a Gothic-led grand coalition of lower Danube tribes which inflicted immense damage on the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire in a series of massive invasions.

During the mid 1st century AD, the Zarubintsy and Lukashevka cultures came to an end in their true form, possibly due to Sarmatian invasions and perturbations of central European trade due to Caesar's invasion of Gaul ( the ' heart ' of the La Tene culture ).

However, after a gap of 150 years, there is a final mention of Bastarnae in the mid 5th century.