Alcaeus ( Alkaios, ) of Mytilene ( c. 620 – 6th century BC ), Greek lyric poet from Lesbos Island who is credited with inventing the Alcaic verse.

Greek Homeland and Diaspora 6th c. BCE

The first systematic grammars originated in Iron Age India, with Yaska ( 6th c. BC ), Pāṇini ( 4th c. BC ) and his commentators Pingala ( ca.

The oldest icon of Christ Pantocrator, Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

St Peter Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

** Neo-Babylonian Empire ( 7th to 6th c. BC )

** Persian Babylonia, Achaemenid Assyria ( 6th to 4th c. BC )

Prometheus ' torment by the eagle and his rescue by Heracles were popular subjects in vase paintings of the 6th – 4th c. BC.

Then, they were ranked to the east, when they were buried in the 5th and later to the beginning of the 6th c. We can notice a strong Anglo-Saxon influence in the middle of the period, that disappears later.

Saint David ( c. 500 – 589 ) () was a Welsh Bishop during the 6th century ; he was later regarded as a saint and as the patron saint of Wales.

With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), peoples speaking Turkic languages spread across Central Asia, covering a vast geographical region stretching from Siberia to Europe and the Mediterranean.

With the Turkic expansion during Early Middle Ages ( c. 6th – 11th centuries ), Turkic languages, in the course of just a few centuries, spread across Central Asia, stretching from Siberia ( the Sakha Republic ) to the Mediterranean ( Seljuk Turks ).

Thus, in the pre-Buddhist times ( 7th / 6th c BCE ), the parts of modern Tajikstan including territories as far as Zeravshan valley in Sogdiana formed parts of ancient Kamboja and the Parama Kamboja kingdoms when it was ruled by Iranian Kambojas till it became part of Achaemenid Empire.

* April 17 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford ( b. c. 1257 )

* Theodora ( 6th century ) ( c. 500 – June 28, 548 ), wife of Emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire

In pocket battles at Chişinău and Sărata the German 6th Army of c. 650, 000 men, newly reformed after the Battle of Stalingrad, was obliterated.

* c. 6000 BC: The entire 6th Millennium was a part of the Holocene climatic optimum ( so were the 4th, 5th, and 7th Millennia ).

c. 6th – 3rd century BC ) was a Chaldean astronomer and mathematician.

In Ancient Greece ( 8th c. BC – AD 6th c .), hegemony denoted the politico – military dominance of a city-state over other city-states.

Over the next few centuries, clarity was reached in the organization of sound units, and the stop consonants were organized in a 5x5 square ( c. 800 BCE, Pratisakhyas ), eventually leading to a systematic alphabet, Brāhmī, around the 6th century BCE.

Confucius ( 6th c. BCE ) famously emphasized the moral commitment implicit in a name, ( zhengming ) stating that the moral collapse of the pre-Qin was a result of the failure to rectify behaviour to meet the moral commitment inherent in names: " Good government consists in the ruler being a ruler, the minister being a minister, the father being a father, and the son being a son ...

The Seven Sages ( of Greece ) or Seven Wise Men ( Greek: οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί, hoi hepta sophoi ; c. 620 BC – 550 BC ) was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century BC philosophers, statesmen and law-givers who were renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom.

As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.

On May 6th, Morgan, who had returned, received from Washington orders to `` send out patrols under vigilant officers '' to keep near the enemy.

However, if their United States income is not subject to the withholding of tax on wages, their returns are due June 15, 1962, if they use a calendar year, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of their fiscal year.

If you are a nonresident alien and a resident of Puerto Rico, your return is also due June 15, 1962, or the 15th day of the 6th month after the close of your fiscal year.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

In fact, he went on to birdie the 6th and 8th as well, to go 4 under par for the first eight holes.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

For easy viewing, the middle 2 beads on each wire ( the 5th and 6th bead ) usually are of a different colour from the other eight beads.

In the 6th century BC the kingdom of Lydia almost expanded to the whole of Asia Minor, until it became a satrapy of the Persian Empire.

Later during the 6th century BC, most of Anatolia was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid Empire, the Persians having usurped the Medes as the dominant dynasty in Iran.

Also, in the 6th century BC, the Indo-European Armenians founded the Orontid Dynasty in Urartu.

In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.

In general, the alphabets of the Mediterranean region ( Anatolia, Greece, Italy ) are classified as Phoenician-derived, adapted from around the 8th century BCE, while those of the East ( the Levant, Persia, Central Asia and India ) are considered Aramaic-derived, adapted from around the 6th century BCE from the Imperial Aramaic script of the Achaemenid Empire.

By the 6th century BC, the Celtic La Tène culture was well established.

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

The earliest records of the study of this phenomenon are attributed to the philosopher Pythagoras in the 6th century BC.

In the 6th century BC, the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras wanted to know why some musical intervals seemed more beautiful than others, and he found answers in terms of numerical ratios representing the harmonic overtone series on a string.

In the west, organized Arianism survived in North Africa, in Hispania, and parts of Italy until it was finally suppressed in the 6th and 7th centuries.

* 1952 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia ( d. 2003 )

Institutionally it is based on the Annales journal, the SEVPEN publishing house, the ( FMSH ), and especially the 6th Section of the École pratique des hautes études, all based in Paris.

In 1970 the 6th Section and the Annales relocated to the FMSH building.

He obtained funding from the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and founded the 6th Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, which was devoted to the study of history and the social sciences.

* 1908 – Arthur Goldberg, American politician and jurist, 6th United States Ambassador to the United Nations ( d. 1990 )

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.