Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque Timeline

  • Period: 400 to Oct 28, 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 410

    Rome is conquered by the Visigoths

  • 430

    St. Patrick begins his Irish mission

  • 455

    Vandals pillage Rome

  • Nov 8, 1098

    Composer Hildegard von Bingen is born

  • Nov 8, 1300

    Guillame de Machou is born

  • Nov 8, 1302

    Dante begins the Divine Comedy

  • Nov 8, 1400

    Polyphonic genre becomes popular

  • Nov 8, 1407

    John Tuder is born

  • Nov 8, 1471

    Henry VIII of England is born

  • Nov 8, 1517

    Luther begins the Protestant Reformation

  • Nov 8, 1560

    Petrus de Drusina is born

  • Nov 8, 1564

    Death of Michaelangelo

  • Death of Tontoretto

  • Renaissance composition was notated only in parts and rarely in scores

  • Composer John IV is born

  • Monteverdi's Orpheus

  • Jamestown colony founded

  • 30 years war starts

  • Mayflower Compact

  • English Civil War begins

  • Antonio Vivaldi is born

  • Georg Telemann is born

  • Composer Bach is born

  • Composer Handel is born

  • Four Seasons was published

  • Clovis becomes King of Franks

  • Clovis converts to Catholicism

  • Gregorian chant starts

  • composer Saint Tuotilo is born