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

His fellow Knights of the Garter created in 1867 were Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond, Charles Manners, 6th Duke of Rutland, Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Franz Joseph I of Austria and Alexander II of Russia.

** John I, 6th Duke of Braganza and 1st Duke of Barcelos ( 1562 ).

* George Spencer-Churchill, 6th Duke of Marlborough ( 1793 – 1857 ), eldest son of the 5th Duke

* John Winston Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough ( 1822 – 1883 ), eldest son of the 6th Duke and paternal grandfather of Winston Churchill

* 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* 1852 – George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg, Russian nobleman ( d. 1912 )

The original Roman vase has remained in the British Museum ever since 1810, apart from three years ( 1929 – 32 ) when William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland put it up for sale at Christie's where it failed to reach its reserve.

* August 13 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( d. 1748 )

* January 17 – James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish peer ( b. 1724 )

* Chatsworth Head acquired by the 6th Duke of Devonshire at Smyrna from H. P. Borrell.

* December 2 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* October 7 – Infante Duarte, Duke of Guimarães, 6th son of King Manuel I of Portugal and his wife Maria of Aragon ( d. 1540 )

The long north wing was added by the 6th Duke in the early nineteenth century.

The 6th Duke ( known as ' the Bachelor Duke ') was a passionate traveller, builder, gardener and collector who transformed Chatsworth.

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

Working for wages was clearly regarded as subjection to the will of another, but at least debt servitude had been abolished at Athens ( under the reforms of Solon at the start of the 6th century BC ).

Nineteenth-century travellers could point to the Hill of San Giovanni on the northwest shore of the Gulf of Ajaccio, which still had a cathedral said to have been the 6th century seat of the Bishop of Ajaccio.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

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.

Gildas, in his 6th century De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, may have been alluding to Boudica when he wrote " A treacherous lioness butchered the governors who had been left to give fuller voice and strength to the endeavours of Roman rule.

According to the work De Administrando Imperio written by the 10th-century Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Croats had arrived in what is today Croatia in the early 7th century, however that claim is disputed and competing hypotheses date the event between the 6th and the 9th centuries.

First described by the 1st-century AD Roman poet Martial, who praised its convenient use, the codex achieved numerical parity with the scroll around AD 300, and had completely replaced it throughout the now Christianised Greco-Roman world by the 6th century.

The 6th century BC temple was named the " Temple of Alcmeonidae " in tribute to the Athenian family who funded its reconstruction following a fire, which had destroyed the original structure.

In Maclean's 2012 common law school rankings, the Schulich School of Law had placed 6th in Canada.

Although the properties of sugar had been known in India in antiquity, it was not traded as a sweetener until industrial-scale production developed in the 6th century.

Pakudha Kaccayana, a 6th century BCE Indian philosopher and contemporary of Gautama Buddha, had also propounded ideas about the atomic constitution of the material world.

Formerly scholarship, on the basis of John's entry in the Menologion, had placed him in the latter 6th Century.

The cities of the Roman Empire had been partially destroyed in the series of wars of the 5th and 6th centuries.

The former had nothing to do with Arthur: in British poetry he was a bard driven mad after witnessing the horrors of war, who fled civilization to become a wild man of the wood in the 6th century.

Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD some 638 years after the project had begun.

The " old style " verse ( gushi ) is less formally strict than the jintishi, or regulated verse, which, despite the name " new style " verse actually had its theoretical basis laid as far back to Shen Yue, in the 5th or 6th century, although not considered to have reached its full development until the time of Chen Zi ' ang ( 661-702 ) A good example of a poet known for his gushi poems is Li Bai.

But at that time, and down to the 9th century, other bishops too referred to themselves as vicars of Christ, and for another four centuries this description was sometimes used of kings and even judges, as it had been used in the 5th and 6th centuries to refer to the Byzantine emperor.

With the growth of the Catholic Church and the formation of parishes, the word " priest " ( ἱερεύς, sacerdos ), which Christians had since the 3rd century applied to bishops and only in a secondary sense to presbyters, began in the 6th century to be used of presbyters, and is today commonly used of presbyters, distinguishing them from bishops.

By the end of the 6th century, Sparta had become the most powerful state in the Peloponnese, and was the political and military hegemon over Argos, the next most powerful state.

The early tradition that expanded upon the Martyrdom to link Polycarp in competition and contrast with John the Apostle who, though many people had tried to kill him, was not martyred but died of old age after being exiled to the island of Patmos, is embodied in the Coptic language fragmentary papyri ( the " Harris fragments ") dating to the 3rd to 6th centuries.

By the 6th century, three states had emerged as the political and cultural heirs of the Meroitic kingdom.

He had an unsuccessful love suit with Williamina Belsches of Fettercairn, who married Scott ´ s friend Sir William Forbes, 6th Baronet.

It is certain that Classical Athens had the largest slave population, with as many as 80, 000 in the 6th and 5th centuries BC ; two to four-fifths of the population were slaves.

Others believe the Arrow to be the one shot by Hercules towards the adjacent Stymphalian birds ( 6th labor ) who had claws, beaks and wings of iron, and who lived on human flesh in the marshes of Arcadia-Aquila the Eagle and Cygnus the Swan, and the Vulture-and still lying between them, whence the title Herculea.

The concept originates at least by the 6th century BC, when it was advocated by the Chinese philosopher Confucius, who " invented the notion that those who govern should do so because of merit, not of inherited status.

In 1880, Lane-Fox inherited the estates of a cousin: Henry Pitt-Rivers, 6th Baron Rivers and consequently the remainder of the Richard Rigby fortune.

The third son of the 5th Duke, he unexpectedly inherited the Dukedom from his eldest brother, Maurice FitzGerald, 6th Duke of Leinster, in 1922.

Most of these calendars are inherited from a system first enunciated in Vedāṅga Jyotiṣa's of Lagadha, a late BCE adjunct to the Veda-s, standardized in the Sūrya Siddhānta ( 3rd century CE ) and subsequently reformed by astronomers such as Āryabhaṭṭa ( 499 CE ), Varāhamihira ( 6th c. CE ), and Bhāskara II ( 12 < sup > th </ sup > c. CE ).

The barony of Ros was restored to the Manners family when Francis Manners, the 6th earl ( 1578 – 1632 ), inherited it in 1618 from his cousin William Cecil ( 1590 – 1618 ).

Elizabeth also inherited most of her uncle's wealth, but the dukedom and other titles could only be passed on to male heirs, and they were inherited by his third cousin once removed, John Sutherland Egerton, 5th Earl of Ellesmere, who became the 6th Duke of Sutherland as well.

Cropley Ashley-Cooper, younger brother of the 5th Earl, inherited the title of 6th Earl upon the death of his older brother in 1811.

However, he died childless during his father's lifetime ( when the barony was inherited by his cousin Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland ).

The 6th Earl of Dunmore, Alexander Edward Murray, had inherited Harris upon the death of his father on the 11th of November 1836 and would in turn be succeeded by his son, Charles Adolphus, following the 6th Earl ’ s death on the 14th of July 1845.

The Baronetcy was inherited by a kinsman, the 6th Baronet, and became extinct on the death of the 8th Baronet in 1784.

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, 2nd Proprietor and 6th and 9th Proprietary Governor of Maryland ( August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715 ), inherited the colony in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.

Meanwhile, Prost pitted for tyres and rejoined 6th, while Berger only inherited 3rd briefly before he retired with gearbox problems, leaving Senna and Mansell on their own.

He was born the eldest son of Gerald Oakley Cadogan, 6th Earl Cadogan and inherited his titles on the death of his father on 4 October 1933. he was educated at Eton and Sandhurst Military College.

The 2nd Cavalry Regiment holds the following battle honours, which it inherited from the 2 / 6th Cavalry ( Commando ) Regiment:

In 1819 the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who had a superfluity of grand homes, a large running debt inherited from his father, and many other expensive interests to pay for, including his reconstruction of Chatsworth House, had Londesbrough demolished.

After the death of the fourth Baronet the estate was inherited by his great-niece Elizabeth Dalrymple, wife of Alexander Lindsay, 6th Earl of Balcarres.

In 1797 the 6th earl inherited from Horace Walpole his famous residence, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham ( hence the name of Waldegrave Road, which connects Strawberry Hill with Teddington ), but his son, George Edward, the 7th earl ( 1816 – 1846 ), was obliged in 1842 to sell the valuable treasures collected there.