Charm of Music Second By keason Period: 1780 to 1910 Romanticism Era 1792 Rossini Born in Pesaro Italy 1797 Schubert Born In Vienna 1803 Berlioz Born in La Cote-Saint-Andre, France 1810 Chopin Born In Warsaw 1810 Robert Schumann Born in Germany 1811 Liszt Born In Doborjan, Hungary 1813 Verdi Born near Busetto Italy 1813 Wagner Born In Leipzig, Germany 1819 Clara Schumann Born in Leipzig 1821 Guatemala, Panama and Santo Domingo proclaim independence from Spain 1824 Smetana Born In Habsburg Empire/Czech Republic 1825 First Passenger carrying railroad in England 1826 Schubert Died 1826 Joseph-Nicephore Niepce takes worlds first photograph 1833 Brahms Born in Hamburg 1840 Tchaikovsky Born in Russian Empire 1840 Lowe and Upper Canada United 1843 Grieg Born in Bergen, Norway 1849 Chopin Died 1849 California goldrush 1856 Robert Schumann died 1858 Puccini Born in Lucca, Italy 1860 Mahler Born in Moravia/Czech Republic 1860 South Carolina Secedes from the Union 1862 Debussy Born in France 1864 Richard Strauss Born in Munich, Bavaria 1867 Brahms Died 1868 Rossini Died 1869 Berlioz Died 1874 Ives Born In Connecticut 1875 Ravel Born in France 1875 Schonberg Born in Vienna 1875 First Kentucky Derby 1879 Thomas Edison invents practical electric light 1881 Bartok Born in Hungary 1882 Stravinsky Born in Russia 1883 Wagner Died 1884 Smetana Died 1886 Liszt Died 1887 Queen Victoria's golden jubilee Period: 1890 to 1975 Modernism Era 1893 Tchaikovsky Died 1893 New Zealand becomes first country to allow women to vote 1895 Orff Born in Munich 1896 Clara Schumann Died 1898 Gershwin Born in New York 1900 Copland Born in New York 1901 Verdi Died Period: 1901 to 2000 20th century 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire 1907 Grieg Died 1910 Boy Scouts of America incorporated 1911 Mahler Died 1912 Cage Born in Los Angeles 1918 Debussy Died 1918 Bernstein Born in Massachusetts 1920 League of nations first meeting in Geneva Switzerland 1923 Puccini Died 1929 US stock market crash 1933 Hitler appointed German chancellor 1936 Reich Born in New York 1937 Ravel Died 1937 Gershwin Died 1939 World War II begins 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt hold Casablanca Conference 1945 Bartok Died 1949 Richard Strauss Died 1950 Truman orders Hydrogen bomb 1951 Schonberg died 1954 Ives Died 1964 Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment 1969 Apollo 11 takes man's first walk on the moon 1971 Stravinsky Died 1982 Orff Died 1990 Bernstein Died 1990 Copland Died 1992 Cage Died