Baroque Music and American History Timeline

  • L’Orfeo Premier by Claudio Monteverdi

    L’Orfeo was a opera written based off the story of Orpheus.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown is a historic site in east Virginia. Historic Jamestowne is home to the ruins of the first permanent English settlement in North America.
  • L’Arianna Premier by Claudio Monteverdi

    L’Arianna was due to premier at a sooner date but was recast and produced later in 1608 due to an incident in Monteverdi’s home. A young girl, a possible pupil of his wife, died of smallpox.
  • The Starving Time in Fort James

    Disease, violence, drought, a meager harvest followed by a harsh winter, and poor drinking water left the majority of colonists dead that winter.
  • Henry Hudson departs from London

    English explorer, Henry Hudson departs from London, England aboard discovery on his forth, final and fatal voyage to discover a north west passage to the pacific
  • Death of Writers

    In 1616, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, died.
  • Brandenburg Concertos J.S Bach

    The Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, are a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721.
  • Orchestral Suites by J.S Bach

    four suites by Johann Sebastian Bach from the years 1724-1731
  • The Providence of Georgia

    the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States.
  • Christmas Oratorio by J.S Bach

    an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season.
  • Italian Concerto by J.S Bach

    a three-movement concerto for two-manual harpsichord solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
  • Slavery in Georgia

    known to have been practiced by European colonists. During the colonial era, the practice of slavery in Georgia soon became surpassed by industrial-scale plantation slavery.