Charm of Music Timeline #1

Middle Ages (5th-15th Century)

Period: 400 to Feb 1, 1400

Gregory I the Great

540

(540-604)
Italian

Charlemagne

Jan 1, 742

(742-814)
King of the Franks (Western Germanic Tribe/ European)

Guido D'Arezzo

Jan 1, 991

(991-1033)
Italian

Pope Leo IX becomes pope

Jan 1, 1049

The Battle of Hastings

Oct 14, 1066

The Construction of the Tower of London begins

Jan 1, 1077

Hildegard von Bingen

Jan 1, 1098

(1098-1179)
German

Leonin

Jan 1, 1135

1135/1150-1201
French

Perotin

Jan 1, 1200

1200-?
French

Magna Carta

Jun 15, 1215

1215

Guillaume de Machaut

Jan 1, 1300

(1300-1377)
French

Renaissance (14th-17th Century)

Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1600

The Hundred Years War

Jan 1, 1337

(1337-1453)

The Black Death

Jan 1, 1348

1348-1350

Guillame Dufay

Jan 1, 1397

1397-1474
Belgian

Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

Jan 1, 1428

Jan, 1 1428

Josquin des Prez

Jan 1, 1450

(1450-1521)
French

The Gutenburg Bible Published

Jan 1, 1454

1454

Spanish Inquisition Begins

Jan 1, 1478

1478

Christopher Columbus Discovers the Americas

Jan 1, 1492

1492

Jacques Arcadelt

Jan 1, 1505

(1505-1568)
French

Tielman Susato

Jan 1, 1510

(1510/15-post 1570)
German

Start of the Reformation

Jan 1, 1517

1517

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi

Jan 1, 1567

(1567-1643)
Italian

John Farmer

Jan 1, 1570

(1570-1605)
English

Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

Jan 1, 1594

(1525-1594)
Italian

Baroque Era (1600-1750)

Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Jan 1, 1750

Arrival of the Pilgrims

Jan 1, 1620

1620

Jean Baptiste Lully

Jan 1, 1632

(1632-1687)
Italian

Henry Purcell

Jan 1, 1659

1659-1695
English

Great Fire of London

Sep 2, 1666

1666

Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

Jan 1, 1685

(1685-1757)
Italian

Johann Sebastian Bach

Jan 1, 1685

(1685-1750)
German

George Frederic Handel

Jan 1, 1685

(1685-1759)
German

Antonio Vivaldi

Jan 1, 1687

(1687-1741)
Italian

Salem Witchcraft Trials

Jan 1, 1692

1692

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Jan 1, 1714

1714-1787
German

Franz Joseph Haydn

Jan 1, 1732

(1732-1809)
Austrian

Classical Era (1750-1825)

Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1825

Benjamin Franklin invents and tests the first lightning rod

May 10, 1752

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jan 1, 1756

(1756-1791)
Austrian

Industrial Revolution

Jan 1, 1760

1760-1820/1840

Domenico Dragonetti

Jan 1, 1763

(1763-1846)
Italian

Boston Massacre

Mar 5, 1770

Ludwig van Beethoven

Jan 1, 1771

(1771-1827)
German

French Revolution

Jan 1, 1789

1789-1799

Invention of the Guillotine

Oct 10, 1789

First Vaccination

Jan 1, 1796

1796