The 6th century
1,710 sourced entries across 100 documented years, grouped into 10 decades. A century here runs 1900–1999 rather than 1901–2000, so its decades sit inside it exactly.
Decades
- The 500s — 10 years, 134 entries
- The 510s — 10 years, 115 entries
- The 520s — 10 years, 159 entries
- The 530s — 10 years, 215 entries
- The 540s — 10 years, 163 entries
- The 550s — 10 years, 185 entries
- The 560s — 10 years, 156 entries
- The 570s — 10 years, 181 entries
- The 580s — 10 years, 198 entries
- The 590s — 10 years, 204 entries
By subject
- Conflict & Security in the 6th century — 346 entries
- Religion & Belief in the 6th century — 187 entries
- Geopolitics & Diplomacy in the 6th century — 120 entries
- Exploration & Expansion in the 6th century — 47 entries
- Culture & Society in the 6th century — 41 entries
- Crime & Justice in the 6th century — 31 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 6th century — 31 entries
- Technology & Infrastructure in the 6th century — 21 entries
- Health & Medicine in the 6th century — 13 entries
- Science & Discovery in the 6th century — 12 entries
A few of the years
- 500Approximate year of the invention of the bee skep in Ireland.
- 512The first written text in the Arabic alphabet is recorded at Zabad (Syria).
- 524May 1 – King Sigismund of Burgundy is executed at Orléans after an 8-year reign, and is succeeded by his brother Godomar. He rallies the Burgundian army and begins plundering Frankish territory.
- 538March 12 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges of the Ostrogoths ends his siege (after 374 days) and abandons Rome. He retreats with his Gothic army northeast along the Via Flaminia.
- 552July 11 – First year of the Armenian calendar.
- 564August 22 – Columba reports seeing the Loch Ness Monster at the River Ness (according to the "Life of St. Columba").
- 576The Göktürks under Tardu cross the Cimmerian Bosporus into the Crimea, and besiege the city of Panticapaeum (Ukraine).
- 588First Perso-Turkic War: A Persian army (12,000 men) under Bahrām Chobin, supported by Cataphracts (heavy cavalry), ambush the invading Turks, and win a great victory at the Battle of the Hyrcanian Rock.