main hiscorical facts

  • BEGGINING OF THE MIDDLE AGES
    476

    BEGGINING OF THE MIDDLE AGES

    Fall of The Roman Empire of the west.
  • Period: 800 to 814

    CARLOMAGNO

    Son of Pepin the Short. He promoted a series of reforms of great importance for Europe. It expanded its area. Political and administrative reforms stand out.
  • Period: 1073 to 1085

    GREGORIAN REFORM

    Result of the measures desired by the Roman Pontiff Gregory VII. These measures sought the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff.
  • FIRST UNIVERSITIES
    1100

    FIRST UNIVERSITIES

    Many monastic and cathedral schools are to become the first universities in Europe.
  • Period: 1170 to 1310

    ARS ANTIQUA

    It is the music of Europe from the late Middle Ages, spanning the period of the Notre Dame School of polyphony and the years after.
  • MASS
    1300

    MASS

    Is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music.
  • Period: 1300 to 1500

    HUMANISM

    Is an intellectual and cultural trend that breaks with the theological idea that God is the center of the universe, becoming the human being and his qualities and values.
  • FRANCESCO LANDINI
    Sep 2, 1397

    FRANCESCO LANDINI

    Francesco Landini was an Italian composer, organist, singer, poet, instrument maker, and astrologer. He was one of the most famous and admired composers of the second half of the 14th century and the most famous composer in Italy.
  • BEGGINING OF THE RENAISSANCE
    1400

    BEGGINING OF THE RENAISSANCE

    It starts in Italy.
  • NEW IDEOLOGIES APPEAR
    1400

    NEW IDEOLOGIES APPEAR

    That reject the meaning of the state and medieval power.
  • FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
    Apr 5, 1453

    FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE

    Mehmet II offered a pact to the city according to which if they accepted the voluntary surrender. But the Byzantine emperor refused. The result was the Muslim takeover of the city.
  • END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
    1492

    END OF THE MIDDLE AGES

    Discovery of America
  • Period: 1492 to

    GOLDEN AGE

    It is a historical period in which Castilian art and literature flourished, and which coincided with the political and military rise of the Spanish Empire of the House of Trastámara and the House of Austria.
  • SOVEREIGN POWER
    1500

    SOVEREIGN POWER

    Is distinguished by its ability to create law, reaching with this his analysis of the concepts of sovereignty and constitutional theory.
  • Period: 1500 to

    ABSOLUTISM

    Is a political doctrine that states that the king is the only one with the power to create laws.
  • Period: 1500 to

    GOVERNMENT OF THE AUSTRIAS

    They were the Habsburg dynasty reigning in the Hispanic Monarchy from the proclamation as king of Carlos I until the death without direct succession of Carlos II, who used the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • Period: 1530 to

    MIDDLE BAROQUE

    Destacaron la constante presencia del contrapunto y la aparición del contrapunto complejo.
  • BEGGINING OF THE BAROQUE
    1550

    BEGGINING OF THE BAROQUE

    Second half of the XVI century
  • Period: 1557 to

    GIOVANNI GAGRIELI

    He was one of the most influential musicians of his time, represents the culmination of the Venetian school, framed in the transition from Renaissance music to Baroque music.
  • DEATH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    DEATH OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

    He was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most famous in universal literature.
  • FRANCE STRUGGLES AGAINST THE POWER OF THE NOBILITY

    FRANCE STRUGGLES AGAINST THE POWER OF THE NOBILITY

    During the reign of Louis XIII (the frond) under Cardinal Richelieu and Mazarin. In the middle of the century, Louis XIV, the Sun King, came to power, achieving royal absolutism. Build the Palace of Versailles in 1648.
  • END OF BAROQUE

    END OF BAROQUE

    First part of XVIII century
  • Period: to

    OPERA SERIA

    It is a Spanish musical term that refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe.
  • BEGGINING OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

    BEGGINING OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

  • TREATY OF MADRID

    TREATY OF MADRID

    By which the problem with Portugal over the territories in America is solved.
  • DEATH OF JOHAN SEBASTIAN BEACH

    DEATH OF JOHAN SEBASTIAN BEACH

    For many scholars, the end of the musical Baroque period is established with his the death.
  • BEETHOVEN

    BEETHOVEN

    He was a German composer, conductor, pianist and piano teacher. His musical legacy spans, chronologically, from Classicism to the beginnings of Romanticism.
  • END OF THE RENAISSANCE

    END OF THE RENAISSANCE

    With the French Revolution
  • Period: to

    THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR

    Between Russia and the Ottoman Empire
  • Period: to

    EDGAR ALAN POE

    He was an American romantic writer, poet, critic and journalist, generally recognized as one of the universal masters of the short story, of which he was one of the first practitioners in his country. He was a renovator of the Gothic novel, remembered especially for his horror stories
  • Period: to

    LIBERALISM

    Was a movement of wide projection that defended as an essential idea the development of individual personal freedom as a way to achieve the progress of society.
  • END OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

    END OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

  • BEGGINING OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

    BEGGINING OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

  • PORTUGAL EXTENSION

    PORTUGAL EXTENSION

    The revolution spread to Portugal from Spain. The flame of the liberal revolution in Porto lights up in the city inside the mercantile prison and proclaims a Constitution.
  • Period: to

    JOHANNES BRAHMS

    He was a German composer, pianist and conductor of romanticism, considered the most classic of the composers of that period.
  • PROGRAM MUSIC

    PROGRAM MUSIC

    Program music is music that aims to evoke ideas and images in the mind of the listener, musically representing a scene, image or mood.
  • POSITIVISM

    POSITIVISM

    It had Saint-Simon, Auguste Comte and Stuart Mill as precursors and outstanding authors. This philosophy arises from the need to treat social phenomena with the same methodology and giving them the same category as the sciences. natural.
  • APPEARANCE OF COLONIAL EMPIRES

    APPEARANCE OF COLONIAL EMPIRES

    Like the British Empire and the French Empire.
  • BEGGINING OF 20th CENTURY

    BEGGINING OF 20th CENTURY

  • END OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

    END OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

  • Period: to

    GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

    He was a Colombian writer and journalist. Known primarily for his novels and short stories, he also wrote nonfiction, speeches, reports, film reviews, and memoirs.
  • Period: to

    CIVIL SPANISH WAR

    The trigger for the war was the attempted coup d'état, perpetrated by Generals Emilio Mola and Francisco Franco, among others, who initially only managed to control part of the territory. The rebels won the war in 1939 and established a military dictatorship that ended with the death of Franco in 1975.
  • GUERNICA

    GUERNICA

    Is a painting by Pablo Picasso whose title alludes to the bombing of Guernica, which occurred on April 26 of that year, during the Spanish Civil War..
  • Period: to

    THE BEATLES

    It was a British rock band formed in Liverpool during the 1960s by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
  • SPANISH CONSTITUTION

    SPANISH CONSTITUTION

    It is the supreme rule of the Spanish legal system, to which all public authorities and citizens of Spain are subject.
  • LIVE AID (QUEEN)

    LIVE AID (QUEEN)

    The performance that stood out, to the point of having been chosen in 2010 as the best live concert in history, was that of Queen. It lasted just 21 minutes, but in that short period he condensed the best of his career and marked the history of music.