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Period: 400 to Feb 1, 1400
Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)
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540
Gregory I the Great
(540-604)
Italian -
Jan 1, 742
Charlemagne
(742-814)
King of the Franks (Western Germanic Tribe/ European) -
Jan 1, 991
Guido D'Arezzo
(991-1033)
Italian -
Jan 1, 1049
Pope Leo IX becomes pope
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Oct 14, 1066
The Battle of Hastings
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Jan 1, 1077
The Construction of the Tower of London begins
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Jan 1, 1098
Hildegard von Bingen
(1098-1179)
German -
Jan 1, 1135
Leonin
1135/1150-1201
French -
Jan 1, 1200
Perotin
1200-?
French -
Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
1215 -
Jan 1, 1300
Guillaume de Machaut
(1300-1377)
French -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance (14th-17th Century)
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Jan 1, 1337
The Hundred Years War
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Jan 1, 1348
The Black Death
1348-1350 -
Jan 1, 1397
Guillame Dufay
1397-1474
Belgian -
Jan 1, 1428
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
Jan, 1 1428 -
Jan 1, 1450
Josquin des Prez
(1450-1521)
French -
Jan 1, 1454
The Gutenburg Bible Published
1454 -
Jan 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition Begins
1478 -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus Discovers the Americas
1492 -
Jan 1, 1505
Jacques Arcadelt
(1505-1568)
French -
Jan 1, 1510
Tielman Susato
(1510/15-post 1570)
German -
Jan 1, 1517
Start of the Reformation
1517 -
Jan 1, 1567
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi
(1567-1643)
Italian -
Jan 1, 1570
John Farmer
(1570-1605)
English -
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina
(1525-1594)
Italian -
Period: to
Baroque Era (1600-1750)
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Arrival of the Pilgrims
1620 -
Jean Baptiste Lully
(1632-1687)
Italian -
Henry Purcell
1659-1695
English -
Great Fire of London
1666 -
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti
(1685-1757)
Italian -
Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750)
German -
George Frederic Handel
(1685-1759)
German -
Antonio Vivaldi
(1687-1741)
Italian -
Salem Witchcraft Trials
1692 -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
1714-1787
German -
Franz Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809)
Austrian -
Period: to
Classical Era (1750-1825)
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Benjamin Franklin invents and tests the first lightning rod
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756-1791)
Austrian -
Industrial Revolution
1760-1820/1840 -
Domenico Dragonetti
(1763-1846)
Italian -
Boston Massacre
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Ludwig van Beethoven
(1771-1827)
German -
French Revolution
1789-1799 -
Invention of the Guillotine
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First Vaccination
1796
