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6th—8th centuries
- "General Mileposts"
- 6th
- —500 A.D.: Scriptures translated into more than
500 languages
- —521 A.D.: Boëthius introduces
Greek musical letter notation to
the West
- —525 A.D.: Dionysius Exiguus creates the
“Anno Domini” system, inspired by the birth
of Jesus
- —552 A.D.: Emperor Justinian begins
Europe’s silk industry; sends missionaries
to smuggle silkworms out of China and
Ceylon
- —556 A.D.: First written record of the Loch Ness
monster
- —577 A.D.: China, under the Chen Dynasty,
invents matches
- —587 A.D.: First Japanese Buddhist
monastery established
- —589 A.D.: Yan Zhitui, Chinese scholar-official, mentions
first use of toilet paper (in China)
- —6th century (unknown year): Borzuya Persian physician
known for his translation of the Indian “Panchatantra”
from Sanskrit into Pahlavi (Middle Persian), dies
- —500 A.D.: Scriptures translated into more than
500 languages
- 7th
- —601 A.D.: The earliest dated English words are “town,” and “priest,” in the
Laws of Ethelbert.
- —630 A.D.: Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas brings first Qu’ran to China;
establishes first Islamic mosque in Guangzhou
- —636 A.D.: Xumi Pagoda, in Zhengding, China, built
- —644 A.D.: New religion, “Tokoyonomushi,” introduced to Japan; promotes
worshipping a worm, drinking sake, dancing in the streets and giving away
money
- —650 A.D.: Khazars, mid-eastern people of mixed race, expand
westward and capture and sell people, mainly Slavs (origin of the word
‘slave’)
- —650 A.D.: First Chinese paper money issued
- —660 A.D.: Qu’ran published for first time as completed book
- —660 A.D.: Wu Zetian becomes the only Chinese woman emperor in
history
- —672 A.D.: “Greek fire” invented in Constantinople
- —699 A.D.: Anglo-Saxon epic poem “Beowulf,” (oldest English epic)
completed
- —7th-8th centuries: Pattadakal, Chalukya architecture
- —601 A.D.: The earliest dated English words are “town,” and “priest,” in the
Laws of Ethelbert.
- 8th
- —700 A.D.: Fingerprinting used in China to identify people
- —725 A.D.: Yi Xing, Chinese Buddhist monk, mathematician, astronomer, mechanical
engineer, creates an astronomical celestial globe using a clockwork escapement
mechanism
- —732 A.D.: The word “Europe” is first mentioned
- —735 A.D.: Smallpox epidemic in Japan (over two years), wipes out one third
of population
- —748 A.D.: First printed newspaper appears in Peking, China
- —750 A.D.: Teotihuacán is destroyed in Mexico
- —770 A.D.: Iron horseshoes came into general common use
- —780 A.D.: Musa al-Kwarizmi born in Baghdad; his contributions to mathematics, geography,
astronomy and cartography are the basis for algebra and trigonometry; his book Kitab al-jabr
wa al-mugabalah (Calculation with Hindu Numerals [825 A.D.]), is responsible for introducing
the Hindu-Arabic numerals system throughout the Middle East and Europe
- —787 A.D.: Charlemagne learns to read and reprimands ecclesiastics for their uncultured
language and “unlettered tongues”; orders monasteries to establish reading schools for clergy
and laity
- —788 A.D.: Shankara, Indian philosopher, theorizes a system that equates human soul with God
- —795 A.D.: Vikings invade Ireland
- —797 A.D.: Irene becomes first Byzantine empress; it appears that she was involved in the plot
to have her son, Emperor Constantine VI, blinded in order to gain power
- —700 A.D.: Fingerprinting used in China to identify people
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