Main historical fact

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  • 476

    Beggining of the middle ages

    The end of the Roman Empire.
  • 500

    Creation of the university

    First university al-Qarawiyyin.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Feudalism

    System of government and economic, social and political organization typical of the Middle Ages, based on a series of ties and obligations that linked vassals and lords.
  • 1000

    Troubadours

    Singer-songwriter poet.
  • 1054

    Eastern schism

    The separation of the pope and the Christianity of the West, of the Christianity of the East and its patriarchs.
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard von Bingen

    He wrote works of a theological and scientific nature, and created Lingua ignota, the first artificial language in history.
  • Period: 1170 to 1392

    Ars antiqua

    Music of Europe from the late Middle Ages.
  • Period: 1213 to 1239

    Moniot d'Arra

    French composer and poet.
  • 1400

    Humanism

    Is based on the idea that human beings are the centre of the universe: anthropocentrism.
  • Period: 1420 to 1500

    Quattrocento

    Characterized by anthropocentrism, the rebirth of antiquity and the support of patrons.
  • Period: 1440 to 1521

    Josquín des Pres

    He cultivated both religious and profane music.
  • 1453

    Start of the Renaissance

    Fall of the byzantine empire.
  • 1492

    End of middle ages

    Discovery of America.
  • 1501

    Davis by Miguel Ángel

    It is a white marble sculpture 5,17 meters high and 5572 kg in mass.
  • Period: 1501 to

    Counter-Reformation

    The Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation is the name given to the response of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation of Martin Luther, which had weakened the Church.
  • Period: 1529 to 1531

    The kappel wars

    They are the first wars of religion to occur in Europe, They took place in Kappel, Switzerland.
  • Period: 1543 to

    William Byrd

    English composer, organist and virginalist, one of the most prominent of the Elizabethan era.
  • Period: 1564 to

    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 world literature.
  • Beginning of the Baroque

    Is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe.
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha

    It is a novel written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
  • Expulsion of the Moors in Spain

    The Duke of Lerma expelled the Moors from Spain.
  • Death of Tomás Luis of Victoria

    He was a Catholic priest, chapelmaster and famous polyphonist composer of the Spanish Renaissance.
  • El mágico prodigioso

    It is a drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca premiered at the corpus festivities in the town of Yepes (Toledo).
  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    He was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, conductor, violinist, viola player, chapel master, singer and teacher of the Baroque period.
  • Period: to

    Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer.
  • The four seasons

    The Four Seasons is a group of four concertos for violin and orchestra by the Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Period: to

    Jacques-Louis David

    Jacques-Louis David Was a highly influential French painter in the neoclassical style. He sought inspiration in Greek sculptural.
  • End of Baroque

    The Baroque ended with the deaths of Bach and Handel, 1750 and 1759 respectively.
  • Begginig of the Classical period

  • Period: to

    William Blake

    William Blake was a British poet, painter, and printmaker. Although he remained largely unknown during his lifetime, Blake's work is held in high esteem today.
  • Period: to

    The industrial revolution

    The Industrial Revolution or First Industrial Revolution is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the 18th century in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • Orfeo y Eurície

    Orpheus and Eurydice is an opera in 3 acts by German composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck, with a libretto by Raniero.
  • Independence of the United States of America

    The congressmen, representatives of the thirteen colonies, proclaimed.
  • Oath of the Horatii

    Oath of the Horatii is a work by Jacques-Louis David made in.
  • End of the Renaissance

    Ended with the French Revolution.
  • Period: to

    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France.
  • Period: to

    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a social and politic conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France.
  • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

    William Blake publishes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It is part of a series of books that he wrote as an imitation of biblical prophecy.
  • Period: to

    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German Romantic composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist.
  • Beginning of the Romantic period

    Romanticism, attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, etc.
  • End of the classical period

    The Classical Era ran just seventy to eighty years.
  • La Campanella

    La Campanella is a study for piano composed by the pianist and composer Franz Liszt. It is Study No. 3 of Paganini's Grandes Études and is written in the key of G sharp minor.
  • End of the Romanticism period

    The English Romantic Period ended with the coronation of Queen Victoria.
  • Beginning of the 20th century

    The 20th century was dominated by significant events that defined the modern era
  • Period: to

    John Cage

    John Cage was an American composer, music theorist, artist and philosopher. Pioneer of random music and electronic music.
  • Period: to

    Dylan Thomas

    Dylan Marlais Thomas was a British poet, short story writer and playwright, Famous for being a bohemian.
  • Period: to

    First World War

  • Russian Revolution

    The Russian Revolution was one of the most explosive political events of the twentieth century.
  • The Second coming

    The Second coming is a poem written by the Irish poet W.B. Yeats
  • Etudes Australes

    Is a set of solo piano studies by John Coge, composed in 1974-1975 for Grete Sultan
  • End of the 20th century

    Is a monumental installation by the German artist Joseph Beuys from 1983, at the Hamburger bahnhof