Charm of Music

By dpatel24
  • Period: 400 to Jan 1, 1400

    Middle Ages (400-1400)

  • 527

    Justinian I becomes Eastern Roman Emperor

  • 540

    Gregory I The Great Birth (Italian)

  • Mar 12, 604

    Gregory I The Great Death (Italian)

  • Jan 1, 747

    Charlemagne Birth (European)

  • Jan 28, 814

    Charlemagne Death (European)

  • Jan 1, 991

    Guido D'Arezzo Birth (Italian)

  • Jan 1, 1033

    Guido D'Arezzo Death (Italian)

  • Jan 1, 1049

    Pope Leo XI becomes the pope

  • Jan 1, 1054

    The East-West Schism divides the church into Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

  • Jan 1, 1098

    Hildegard Von Bingen Birth (German)

  • Jan 1, 1135

    Leonin Birth (French)

  • Jan 1, 1160

    Perotin Birth (French)

  • Jan 1, 1179

    Hildegard Von Bingen Death (German)

  • Jan 1, 1201

    Leonin Death (French)

  • Jan 1, 1202

    The Fourth Crusade begins

  • Jun 15, 1215

    The Magna Carta is sealed by John of England

  • Jan 1, 1230

    Perotin Death (French)

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Guillame de Machaut Birth (French)

  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Renaissance Era (1300-1600)

  • Jan 1, 1337

    Hundred Years War begins

  • Jan 1, 1346

    The Black Death begins to spread

  • Apr 13, 1377

    Guillame de Machaut Death (French)

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Josquin Desprez Birth (Flemish)

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus discovers the Americas

  • Jun 10, 1494

    Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas

  • Jan 1, 1505

    Jacques Arcadelt Birth (French)

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Protestant Reformation begins

  • Aug 27, 1521

    Josquin Desprez Death (Flemish)

  • Jan 1, 1525

    Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Birth (Italian)

  • May 9, 1568

    Claudio Monteverdi Birth (Italian)

  • Oct 14, 1568

    Jacques Arcadelt Death (French)

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Death (Italian)

  • Period: to

    Baroque Era (1600-1750)

  • Dutch East India Company established

  • Pilgrims Arrive

  • Claudio Monteverdi Death (Italian)

  • Henry Purcell Birth (English)

  • Great Plague of London begins

  • Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Birth (Italian)

  • Jean Baptiste Lully Birth (French)

  • George Frideric Handel Birth (German)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach Birth (German)

  • Domenico Scarlatti Birth (Italian)

  • Jean Baptiste Lully Death (Italian)

  • The Bank of England is established

  • Henry Purcell Death (English)

  • The First Great Awakening begins in Great Britain and North America

  • Franz Joseph Haydn Birth (Austrian)

  • Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Death (Italian)

  • Period: to

    Classical Era (1750-1825)

  • Johann Sebastian Bach Death (German)

  • French and Indian War begins

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Birth (Austrian)

  • Domenico Scarlatti Death (Italian)

  • George Frideric Handel Death (German)

  • Industrial Revolution begins

  • Domenico Dragonetti Birth (Italian)

  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Birth (German)

  • Boston Tea Party takes place

  • The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War

  • George Washington is elected the first President of the United States

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Death (Austrian)

  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French

  • Franz Joseph Haydn Death (Austrian)

  • Mexico gains independence from Spain with the Treaty of Cordoba

  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Death (German)

  • First electric motor built

  • Domenico Dragonetti Death (Italian)