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The 6th century is the period from 501
501

Events...
 to 600
600

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 in accordance with the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
 in the Christian/Common Era
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. This century marks the end of Classical Antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 and the beginning of the Dark Ages
Dark Ages

Dark Age or Dark Ages is a term in historiography referring to a period of cultural decline or societal collapse that took place in Western Europe between the Decline of the Roman Empire and the eventual recovery of learning....
.

owing the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 late in the previous century, Europe fractured into many small Germanic Kingdoms, which competed fiercely for land and wealth. From this upheaval the Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
 rose to prominence, and carved out a sizeable domain encompassing much of modern France and Germany.






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The 6th century is the period from 501
501

Events...
 to 600
600

Sorry, no overview for this topic
 in accordance with the Julian calendar
Julian calendar

The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and came into force in 45 BC . It was chosen after consultation with the astronomer Sosigenes of Alexandria and was probably designed to approximate the tropical year, known at least since Hipparchus....
 in the Christian/Common Era
Common Era

Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
. This century marks the end of Classical Antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 and the beginning of the Dark Ages
Dark Ages

Dark Age or Dark Ages is a term in historiography referring to a period of cultural decline or societal collapse that took place in Western Europe between the Decline of the Roman Empire and the eventual recovery of learning....
.

Overview

Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 late in the previous century, Europe fractured into many small Germanic Kingdoms, which competed fiercely for land and wealth. From this upheaval the Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
 rose to prominence, and carved out a sizeable domain encompassing much of modern France and Germany. Meanwhile, the surviving Eastern Roman Empire began to expand under the emperor Justinian, who eventually recaptured North Africa from the Vandals
Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century. The Goths Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals as well as with the Burgundians and the Franks under Clovis I....
, and attempted to fully recover Italy as well in the hope of re-establishing Roman control over the lands once ruled by the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
. Following Justinian's death, most of his gains were lost.

During its second Golden Age, the Sassanid Empire
Sassanid Empire

The Sassanid Empire or Sassanian Dynasty is the name of the last pre-Islamic Iranian empire. It was one of the two main powers in Western Asia for a period of more than 400 years....
 reached the peak of its power under Khosrau I
Khosrau I

Khosrau I or Khosrow I , also known as Anushiravan the Just , was the favourite son and successor of Kavadh I , twentieth Sassanid Empire Emperor of Persia, and the most famous and celebrated of the Sassanid Emperors....
 in the 6th century. The classical Gupta Empire
Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was ruled by members of the Gupta dynasty from around 280 to 550 CE and covered most of Northern India, Southern and Eastern Pakistan, parts of Gujarat and Rajasthan and what is now western India and Bangladesh....
 of Northern India, largely overrun by the Huna, ended in the mid-6th century. In Japan
Yamato period

The is the period of history of Japan when the Japanese Imperial court ruled from modern-day Nara Prefecture, then known as Yamato Province.While conventionally assigned to the period 250?710 , the actual start of Yamato rule is disputed....
, the Kofun period
Kofun period

The is an era in the history of Japan from around 250 to 538. The word kofun is Japanese for the type of tumuluss dating from this era. The Kofun period follows the Yayoi period....
 gave way to the Asuka period
Asuka period

The , was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 , although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved much during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka, Yamato region, about 25 km south to the modern city of Nara, Nara....
. After being divided for more than 150 years into the Southern and Northern Dynasties
Southern and Northern Dynasties

The Southern and Northern Dynasties followed the Jin Dynasty and preceded Sui Dynasty in China. It was an age of civil war and political disunity....
, China
History of China

China civilization originated in various city-states along the Yellow River valley in the Neolithic era. The written history of China begins with the Shang Dynasty ....
 was reunited under the Sui Dynasty
Sui Dynasty

The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
 toward the end of the 6th century. The Three Kingdoms of Korea
Three Kingdoms of Korea

The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo, and kingdom of Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE....
 persisted throughout the 6th century. The Göktürks
Göktürks

The G?kt?rks were a powerful nomadic confederation of medieval Inner Asia. Known in China sources as T'u k?e , the G?kt?rks under the leadership of Bumin Khan and his sons succeeded the Rouran as the main power in the region and took hold of the lucrative Silk Road trade....
 became a major power in Central Asia
Central Asia

Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east, and from southern Russia in the north to northern India in the south....
 after defeating the Rouran
Rouran

Rouran , Ruanruan/Ruru also known as Tan Tan was the name of a confederation of nomadic tribes on the northern borders of China Proper from the late 4th century until the late 6th century....
.

In the Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
, Teotihuacan
Teotihuacán

Teotihuacan is an enormous archaeological site in the Basin of Mexico, containing some of the largest Mesoamerican pyramid built in the pre-Columbian Americas....
 began to decline in the 6th century after having reached its zenith between AD 150 and 450. Classic Period of the Maya civilization in Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
.

Events

Buddhist Stela Northern Wei Period
* The first academy of the east the Academy of Gundeshapur
Gundeshapur

Gundeshapur was the intellectual center of the Sassanid empire and the home of the Academy of Gundishapur.Founded in 271 CE by the Sassanid king Shapur I, Gondeshapur was home to the world's oldest known teaching hospital, and also comprised a library and a university....
 founded in Iran
Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
 by Khosrau I of Persia.
  • Irish
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     colonists and invaders, the Scots, began migrating to Caledonia
    Caledonia

    Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Ancient Rome to the land in today's Scotland north of their Roman provinces of Roman Britain, beyond the Frontiers of the Roman Empire of their Roman Empire....
     (later known as Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
    ). Migration from south-west Britain to Brittany.
  • Glendalough
    Glendalough

    Glendalough is a Valley#Glacial valleys located in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland, renowned for its Early Middle Ages monastic settlement founded in the 6th century by Kevin of Glendalough, a hermit priest, and destroyed in 1398 in Ireland by English troops....
     monastery
    Monastery

    Monastery , a term derived from the Greek language word ???ast?????, neut. of ???ast????? - monasterios denotes the building, or complex of buildings, that houses a room reserved for prayer as well as the domestic quarters and workplace of Monk, whether monks or nuns, and whether living in Cenobium or alone ....
    , Wicklow
    Wicklow

    Wicklow is the county seat of County Wicklow in Republic of Ireland. Located south of the capital Dublin on the east coast of the island, it has a population of 10,070 according to the 2006 census....
     Ireland
    Ireland

    Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
     founded by St. Kevin
    Kevin of Glendalough

    Saint Kevin of Glendalough is a Christianity saint who was the Abbot of Glendalough in County Wicklow, Ireland. "Kevin" is the English language spelling of the Irish language name Caoimhin ....
    . Many similar foundations in Ireland and Wales.
  • Zen
    Zen

    Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism, referred to in Chinese as Ch?n. Ch?n is itself derived from the Sanskrit Dhyana, which means "meditation" ....
     Buddhists
    Buddhism

    Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
     enter Vietnam
    Vietnam

    Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
     from China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    .
  • Buddhist Jataka
    Jataka

    The Jataka Tales also known in other languages refer to a voluminous body of folklore-like literature native to India concerning the previous births of the Gotama Buddha....
     stories are translated into Persian
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
     by order of the Zoroastrian king Khosrau.
  • 518
    518

    For the area code see area code 518....
     - Roman Emperor Anastasius I
    Anastasius I (emperor)

    Flavius Anastasius or Anastasius I was Byzantine Emperor from 11 April 491 until his death. He was born at Dyrrhachium not later than 430/431....
     dies and is succeeded by Justin I
    Justin I

    Flavius Iustinus , known in English as Justin I, was a List of Byzantine Emperors , who rose through the ranks of the army of the Byzantine Empire and ultimately became its emperor, in spite of the fact he was illiterate and almost seventy years old at the time of accession....
    .
  • 527
    527

    For the political lobbying groups, see 527 groups....
     — Justinian I
    Justinian I

    Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
     succeeds Justin I
    Justin I

    Flavius Iustinus , known in English as Justin I, was a List of Byzantine Emperors , who rose through the ranks of the army of the Byzantine Empire and ultimately became its emperor, in spite of the fact he was illiterate and almost seventy years old at the time of accession....
     as Emperor
    Emperor

    An emperor is a monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress is the female equivalent. As a title, "empress" may indicate the wife of an emperor or a woman who rules in her own right ....
     of the Eastern Roman Empire.
  • 529
    529

    Events...
     — Saint Benedict of Nursia
    Benedict of Nursia

    Saint Benedict of Nursia was a saint from Italy, the founder of Western Christian monasticism communities, and a rule-giver for cenobite monks....
     founds the monastery of Monte Cassino
    Monte Cassino

    Monte Cassino is a rocky hill about 130 km southeast of Rome, Italy, c. 2 km to the west of the town of Cassino, Italy and 520 m altitude....
     in Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
    .
  • 532
    532

    Events...
     — Nika riots
    Nika riots

    The Nika riots , or Nika revolt, took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in 532. It was the most violent riot that Constantinople had ever seen to that point, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed....
     in Constantinople
    Constantinople

    Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
    ; the cathedral is destroyed. They are put down a sennight later by Belisarius
    Belisarius

    Flavius Belisarius is often described as one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Western Roman Empire, which had been lost just under a century previously....
     and Mundus
    Mundus

    Mundus , was an Byzantine Empire general during the reign of Justinian I....
    ; up to 30,000 people are killed in the Hippodrome
    Hippodrome of Constantinople

    The Hippodrome of Constantinople was a Race track that was the sporting and social centre of Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and the largest city in Europe....
    .
  • 535
    535

    Events...
     - Possible volcanic eruption causes several years of abnormally cold weather, resulting in mass famine.
  • 537
    537

    Events...
    : Battle of Camlann
    Battle of Camlann

    The Battle of Camlann is best known as the final battle of King Arthur, where he either died in battle, or was fatally wounded fighting his enemy and relative Mordred....
    , final battle of King Arthur
    King Arthur

    King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
  • c.538
    538

    Events...
    -540
    540

    Events...
     - First Pandemic of bubonic plague
    Bubonic plague

    Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the Enterobacteriaceae Yersinia pestis . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas....
     hits Byzantine Empire
    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
    .
  • Buddhism
    Buddhism

    Buddhism is a family of beliefs and practices considered by most to be a religionand is based on the teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as "The Buddha" , who was born in what is today Nepal....
     introduced to Japan
    Japan

    Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
     from Baekje
    Baekje

    Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
     in 552
    552

    Events...
    , thus contributing to the changes that occurred in the Asuka period
    Asuka period

    The , was a period in the history of Japan lasting from 538 to 710 , although its beginning could be said to overlap with the preceding Kofun period. The Yamato polity evolved much during the Asuka period, which is named after the Asuka, Yamato region, about 25 km south to the modern city of Nara, Nara....
    .
  • 554
    554

    Events...
    , Eviction of the Ostrogoths from Rome, and the re-unification of all Italy under Imperial rule.
  • 563
    563

    Events...
    , the monastery on Iona
    Iona

    Iona is a small island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland that has an important place in the history of Christianity in Scotland and is renowned for its tranquility and natural beauty....
     is founded by St. Columban
    Columba

    Early life in IrelandColumba was born to Fedlimid and Eithne of the Cenel Conaill in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, County Donegal, in Ireland. On his father's side he was great-great-grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an High King of Ireland of the 5th century....
    .
  • Outbreak of bubonic plague
    Bubonic plague

    Plague is a deadly infectious disease caused by the Enterobacteriaceae Yersinia pestis . Plague is a zoonotic, primarily carried by rodents and spread to humans via fleas....
     in Constantinople
    Constantinople

    Constantinople was the empire capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire . Strategically located between the Golden Horn and the Sea of Marmara at the point where Europe meets Asia, Byzantine Constantinople had been the capital of a Christendom empire, successor to ancient ancient Greece...
     and the rest of the Byzantine Empire
    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
     (Plague of Justinian
    Plague of Justinian

    The Plague of Justinian was a pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire, including its capital Constantinople, in the years 541?542 AD. The most commonly accepted cause of the pandemic is bubonic plague, which later became infamous for either causing or contributing to the Black Death of the 14th century....
    ).
  • 589
    589

    Events...
    , China reunified under the Sui Dynasty
    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
    .
  • The Kutrigur Bulgars
    Bulgars

    The Bulgars were a seminomadic people, probably of Turkic peoples descent, originally from Southern Central Asia, who from the 2nd century onwards dwelled in the steppes north of the Caucasus and around the banks of river Volga ....
     move into modern Romania
    Romania

    Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
    .
  • Jew
    Jew

    A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
    ish influence in Aksum.
  • Nubia
    Nubia

    Nubia is a region in Southern Egypt along the Nile and in what is now northern Sudan. Most of Nubia is situated in Sudan with about a quarter of its territory in Egypt....
     is largely converted to Coptic Christianity
    Coptic Christianity

    ||-The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the official name for the largest Christianity church in Egypt. The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodoxy family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christology theology from that of the E...
    .
  • The area of modern Aargau
    Aargau

    Aargau is one of the more northerly Cantons of Switzerland of Switzerland. It comprises the lower course of the river Aare, which is why the canton is called Aargau ....
     falls into the Franks
    Franks

    The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
    .
  • The Kingdom of Funan
    Funan

    Funan was an ancient pre-Angkor Indianized kingdom Khmer kingdom located around the Mekong Delta. It is believed to have been established in the first century C.E, although extensive human settlement in the region may have gone back as far as the 4th century B.C.E....
     dies out.
  • Black Death
    Black Death

    The Black Death, was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by a bacterium named Yersinia pestis , but recently attributed by some factors to other diseases....
     raged over south east Asia.
  • Silk Road
    Silk Road

    The Silk Road is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe....
     farther into Europe.
  • 589–618: Sui Dynasty
    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....
     of China
  • Old Irish language
    Old Irish language

    Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language, or, rather, the Goidelic languages, for which extensive written texts are possessed....
     develops
  • Old Dutch language
    Language

    A language is a form of symbol communication in which elements are combined to represents something other than themselves. Language can also refer to the use of such systems as a general phenomenon....
     develops
  • Abraha
    Abraha

    File:Kaleb.jpgAbraha also known as Abraha al-Ashram or Abraha b. as-Saba'h, was an Aksumiten Christian viceroy in southern Arabian Peninsula for the Aksumite Empire, and later self styled King of Saba' ....
     attacks Kaaba
    Kaaba

    The Kaaba "Cube" is a cuboidal building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the Most holy place#Islam in Islam. The building is more than two thousand years old, and according to Islamic tradition the first building at the site was built by Abraham ....
     in Mecca
    Mecca

    Mecca , also spelled Makkah , Makka is a city in Saudi Arabia. Home to the Masjid al-Haram, it is the holy city in Islam and plays an important role in the faith....
     (circa 571
    571

    Events...
    )
  • 590
    590

    Events...
    , Pope Gregory I
    Pope Gregory I

    Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
     succeeds Pope Pelagius II
    Pope Pelagius II

    Pope Pelagius II was pope from 579 to 590.He was a native of Rome, but probably of Ostrogoths descent, as his father's name was Winigild.Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantine Empire were of little help, forcing Pelagius to "buy" a truce and turn to the Franks, who invaded Italy, but left...
     as the 64th pope.


Significant persons

  • Muhammad
    Muhammad

    Muhammad Patronymic#Arabic Abd Allah ibn Abd al Muttalib , is the founder of the Major religious groups of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as a Rasul and prophet of , the last and the greatest law-bearer in a series of prophets....
    , prophet of Islam
    Islam

    Islam is a Monotheism, Abrahamic religion originating with the teachings of the Prophets of Islam Muhammad, a 7th century Arab religious and political figure....
    , (born 570
    570

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    )
  • Pope Gregory the Great
    Pope Gregory I

    Pope Saint Gregory I or Gregory the Great was pope from 3 September 590 until his death.He is also known as Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues....
     (died 604
    604

    Events...
    )
  • Clovis I
    Clovis I

    Clovis was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Franks under one king. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks, one of the Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their centre around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an...
    , first King of the Franks to unite the Franks
    Franks

    The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
     under one ruler (c. 466-511)
  • Arthur
    King Arthur

    King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
    , (fictional?) defeated the Anglo-Saxons
    Anglo-Saxons

    Anglo-Saxons is the term usually used to describe the invading tribes in the south and east of Great Britain starting from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, lasting until the Norman conquest of England of 1066....
  • Justinian
    Justinian I

    Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Iustinianus , AD 482 or 483 ? 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty and List of Roman Emperors from 527 until his death....
    , Byzantine Emperor (527–565)
  • Khosrau I of Persia, Sassanid king (531–579)
  • Belisarius
    Belisarius

    Flavius Belisarius is often described as one of the greatest generals of the Byzantine Empire. He was instrumental to Byzantine Emperor Justinian I's ambitious project of reconquering much of the Western Roman Empire, which had been lost just under a century previously....
    , Byzantine
    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
     general.
  • Gregory of Tours
    Gregory of Tours

    Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
     (c. 538–594)
  • Beowulf, (fictional?) king of the Geats
    King of the Geats

    Geatish kings existed since the provinces of G?taland/Gautland/Geatland are considered to have been more or less independent with their own kings....
  • Hrodgar
    Hroðgar

    Hro?gar, Hrothgar, Hr?arr, Hroar, Roar, Roas or Ro was a legendary Danish king, living in the early 6th century.A Danish king Hro?gar appears in the Anglo-Saxons Epic poetrys Beowulf and Widsith, and also in Norse sagas, Norse poems, and medieval Danish chronicles....
    , Danish king depicted in Beowulf
    Beowulf

    Beowulf is an Old English language heroic Epic poetry of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th to the early 11th century, and relates events described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden....
  • Jordanes
    Jordanes

    Jordanes , was a 6th century Roman bureaucrat , who turned his hand to history later in life.Though he also wrote Romana , a book about the history of Rome, his most known work is his Getica, written in Constantinople about AD 551 ....
    , author of the Getica.
  • Procopius
    Procopius

    Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine Empire scholar of the family Procopius . A participant himself in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, he was the major historian of the 6th century, writing the Wars of Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History....
    , Byzantine historian.
  • Bozorgmehr
    Burzoe

    Burzoe or Bozorgmehr was a famous Iranian statesman and physician of the Sassanid era of the Persian Empire in the sixth century. He was the chancellor of Khosrau I ....
    , Persian
    Persian people

    Persian identity, at least in terms of language, is traced to the ancient Indo-Iranians , who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE....
     sage.
  • Empress Suiko
    Empress Suiko

    =GenealogyBefore her ascension to the Chrysanthemum Throne, her personal name was Mikekashiya-hime-no-mikoto., also called Toyomike Kashikiya hime no Mikoto....
     of Japan
  • Taliesin
    Taliesin

    Taliesin , , was a Brythonic languages poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin....
    , Welsh poet
  • Abraham Kidunaia
  • Austell
  • Emperor Wen of Sui
    Emperor Wen of Sui

    Emperor Wen of Sui , personal name Yang Jian , also known by the Xianbei name Puliuru Jian during Northern Zhou, nickname Naluoyan , was the founder and first Emperor of China of China's Sui Dynasty....
    , founder and first emperor
    Emperor of China

    The Emperor of China refers to any monarch of Imperial China reigning since the founding of the Qin Dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912....
     of Chinese
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
     Sui Dynasty
    Sui Dynasty

    The Sui Dynasty followed the Southern and Northern Dynasties and preceded the Tang Dynasty in China. It ended nearly four centuries of division between rival regimes....


Inventions, discoveries, introductions

  • Dionysius Exiguus
    Dionysius Exiguus

    Dionysius Exiguus was a sixth century monk born in Scythia Minor, in what is now the territory of Dobruja, Romania, and a member of the so called "Scythian monks" community....
     creates the Anno Domini
    Anno Domini

    , abbreviated as 'AD' or 'A.D.', and 'Before Christ', abbreviated as 'BC' or 'B.C.', are designations used to number years in the Julian calendar and Gregorian calendars....
     system, inspired by the birth of Jesus
    Jesus

    Jesus of Nazareth , also known as Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity and is revered by most Christian churches as the Son of God and the Incarnation ....
    , in 525
    525

    Events* Dionysius Exiguus proposes a calendar based on the birth of Jesus Christ....
    . This is the system upon which the Gregorian calendar
    Gregorian calendar

    The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas....
     and Common Era
    Common Era

    Common Era, abbreviated as CE, is a designation for the calendar system most commonly used in the Western world, and also internationally, for numbering the year part of the calendar date....
     systems are based.
  • Backgammon
    Backgammon

    Backgammon is a board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. A player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board....
     (nard) invented in Persia
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     by Burzoe
    Burzoe

    Burzoe or Bozorgmehr was a famous Iranian statesman and physician of the Sassanid era of the Persian Empire in the sixth century. He was the chancellor of Khosrau I ....
  • Chess
    Chess

    Chess is a recreational and competitive game played between two Player . Sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from History of chess and other chess variants, the current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older...
    , as chaturanga
    Chaturanga

    ! colspan="2" bgcolor=#ccccff | Chaturanga pieces|-| || Raja |-| || Mantri or Senapati |-| || Iratham |-| || Yaanei |-| || Kutharei |-...
    , entered Persia
    Iran

    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran and formerly known internationally as Persian Empire until 1935, is a country in Central Eurasia, located on the northeastern shore of the Persian Gulf and the southern shore of the Caspian Sea....
     from India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
     and was modified to shatranj
    Shatranj

    Shatranj ????????? is an old form of chess, which came from India to Persia and has been popular in Persia and the Middle East for almost 1000 years....
    .
  • Breast-strap horse harness in use in Frankish
    Franks

    The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
     kingdom
  • Byzantine Empire
    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
     acquires silk technology from China
  • Vaghbata, Indian medical books
  • In 589
    589

    Events...
     AD, the Chinese scholar-official Yan Zhitui makes the first reference to the use of toilet paper
    Toilet paper

    Toilet paper is a soft paper product used to maintain personal hygiene after human defecation or urination. It differs in composition somewhat from facial tissue, and is designed to decompose in septic tanks, which some other bathroom and facial tissues do not....
     in history.
  • Significant to the history of agriculture
    History of agriculture

    Agriculture was developed at least 10,000 years ago, and it has undergone significant developments since the time of the earliest cultivation. Evidence points to the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East as the site of the earliest planned sowing and harvesting of plants that had previously been gathered in the wild....
    , the Chinese author Jia Sixia wrote the treatise Chi Min Yao Shu in 535
    535

    Events...
    , and although it quotes 160 previous Chinese agronomy
    Agronomy

    Agronomy is the science and technology of using plants for food, fuel, feed, and fiber. Agronomy encompasses work in the areas of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science....
     books, it is the oldest existent Chinese agriculture treatise. In over one hundred thousand written Chinese characters, the book covered land preparation, seeding, cultivation, orchard management, forestry, animal husbandry, trade, and culinary uses for crops.

Decades and years