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6th century

2007 Concise Encyclopedia. Related subjects: General history

Centuries: 5th century - 6th century - 7th century
Decades: 500s 510s 520s 530s 540s 550s 560s 570s 580s 590s

The 6th century is the period from 501 - 600 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.
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Events

This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.
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This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.
  • The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur founded in Iran by Khosrau I of Persia.
  • Irish colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia (later known as Scotland)
  • Glendalough monastery, Wicklow Ireland founded by St. Kevin
  • The monastery on Iona is founded by St. Columban
  • Zen Buddhists enter Vietnam from China.
  • Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Persian by order of the Zoroastrian king Khosrau.
  • 537: Battle of Camlann, final battle of King Arthur
  • Buddhism introduced to Japan from Baekje in 552, thus contributing to the changes that occurred in the Asuka period.
  • Outbreak of bubonic plague in Constantinople and the rest of the Roman Empire ( Plague of Justinian).
  • Establishment of Karantania, first stable and independent state of Slovenians and of Slavs.
  • The Kutriguri Bulgars move into modern Romania.
  • Jewish influence in Aksum.
  • Nubia is largely converted to Coptic Christianity.
  • The area of modern Aargau falls to the Franks.
  • The Kingdom of Funan dies out.
  • Black Death raged over south east Asia.
  • Silk Road farther into Europe.
  • 589-618: Sui Dynasty of China
  • Old Irish language develops
  • Old Dutch language develops

Significant persons

  • Pope Gregory the Great (590-604)
  • Arthur, defeated the Anglo-Saxons
  • Justinian, Byzantine Emperor (527-565)
  • Khosrau I of Persia, Sassanid king (531-579)
  • Belisarius, last great Roman general
  • Gregory of Tours (c. 538-594)
  • Beowulf, (fictional?) king of the Geats
  • Jordanes, author of the Getica.
  • Procopius, Byzantine historian.
  • Bozorgmehr, Persian sage.
  • Muhammad, prophet of Islam, born cca in 570.
  • Empress Suiko of Japan
  • Taliesin, Welsh poet
  • Abraham Kidunaia
  • Austell

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • Dionysius Exiguus creates the Anno Domini system, inspired by the alleged birth of Jesus, in 525. This is the system upon which the Gregorian calendar and Common Era systems are based.
  • Backgammon (nard) invented in Persia by Burzoe
  • Chess, as chaturanga, entered Persia from India and was modified to shatranj.
  • Breast-strap horse harness in use in Frankish kingdom
  • Byzantine Empire acquires silk technology from China
  • Vaghbata, Indian medical books

Decades and years

490s 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499
500s 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509
510s 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519
520s 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529
530s 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539
540s 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549
550s 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559
560s 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569
570s 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579
580s 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589
590s 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599
600s 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609
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Selected Articles
Notae Musicae Artis: Musical Notation in Polish Sources, 11th--6th Century & Musica Scripto: Kodeksy Menzuralne II Polowy XV wieku na wschodzie Europy Lacinskiej.(Book Review)
...Notation in Polish Sources, 11th--6th Century. Edited by Elzbieta Withowska-Zaremba...Europe in the Second Half of the 15th Century. By Pawel Gancarczyk. Warszaw: Instytut...manuscripts ranging from eleventh-century Gospel books with neumes to sixteenth-century...
June 1, 2003; Notes

Boats travel on the Peking Canal,from Su Chaw to Nankin (1794), built in the 6th century. (PAR97964)
...to Nankin (1794), built in the 6th century. Keywords: asian far east origin...to nankin (1794), built in the 6th century. boats travel on the peking canal...to nankin (1794), built in the 6th century. 1973 Magnum Photos
January 1, 1973; Magnum Photos

India-West Asia trade in ancient times; 6th century B.C. to 3rd century A.D.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
817708125X India-West Asia trade in ancient times; 6th century B.C. to 3rd century A.D. Das, Giridhari Prasad. New Century Pub. (Delhi) 2006 350 pages $46.00 Hardcover HF3788 A specialist in economic history...
May 1, 2007; Reference & Research Book News

This handout picture of a 6th century AD gilt-edged silver chalice...
This handout picture of a 6th century AD gilt-edged silver chalice... Full Size JPG (1255 KB) This handout picture of a 6th century AD gilt-edged silver chalice from Antioch now kept in Venice...
September 10, 2008; Getty Images

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085989746X Scythians and Greeks; cultural interactions in Scythia, Athens and the early Roman empire (6th century BC - first century AD) Ed. by David Braund. University of Exeter 2005 254 pages $90.00 Hardcover DK34 Almost all the contributors...
November 1, 2005; Reference & Research Book News

A marble Parian woman's torso (Kore) from the 6th century B.C...
...03-29-2007 A marble Parian woman's torso (Kore) from the 6th century B.C... Full Size JPG (910 KB) A marble Parian woman's torso (Kore) from the 6th century B.C is on display at the Archaeological museum in Athens...
March 29, 2007; Getty Images

how-to; Making memories; 3 WAYS; 3. The craft of the 6th century finds new life in the art of the 21st in leather-bound books for the future. how-to; "I ask people for four to five months to complete a book," she said.(SOURCE)
...leather-bound place to live. Maybe something straight out of the 6th century, given fresh life in the 21st go-round by Marcia Engeltjes...journal doubles as a locket. These are not your typical 6th-century monk's books. She's changed some of the ancient techniques...
December 6, 2005; Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)

The American century; a history of the United States since the 1890s, 6th ed.(Brief article)(Book review)
9780765620644 The American century; a history of the United States since the 1890s, 6th ed. LaFeber, Walter et al. M.E. Sharpe, Inc. 2008 609 pages $42.95 Paperback E741 LaFeber (emeritus, Cornell U.), Polenberg (American...interpretive history of the United States from the 1890s, the beginnings of modern America, ...
August 1, 2008; Reference & Research Book News

oversized stone figure, called "the giant" (hercules) dating to 6th century. Angentsite is called Gela, colonized by the greeks. (PAR87078)
...stone figure, called "the giant" (hercules) dating to 6th century. Angentsite is called Gela, colonized by the greeks...stone figure, called "the giant" (hercules) dating to 6th century. angentsite is called gela, colonized by the greeks...
January 1, 1956; Magnum Photos

Huge olive press from 6th century uncovered in Galilee. Site may have been in Byzantine monastery or large farm
...Jerusalem Post 08-07-2008 Headline: Huge olive press from 6th century uncovered in Galilee. Site may have been in Byzantine...August 7, 2008 -- An olive press from the sixth or seventh century CE - one of the largest ever found in the Land of Israel...
August 7, 2008; Jerusalem Post



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