MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

  • Beginning of the Middle Ages
    476

    Beginning of the Middle Ages

    The fall of the Roman Empire is considered the beginning of the Middle Ages in 476.
  • Period: 722 to Jan 2, 1492

    Reconquest of hispania

    They were military campaigns carried out by the Christians to recover the peninsula from the Muslims.
  • When music was born.
    800

    When music was born.

    Western musical notation was born around 800 in the Empire of Charlemagne.
  • Beginning of the renaissance
    1300

    Beginning of the renaissance

    Its origin dates back to Florence, Italy, in the year 1400, where an intention was conceived to transform and evolve art in Europe, which at that time preserved the medieval style.
  • Period: 1300 to Apr 13, 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut's life

    He was a French medieval clergyman, poet and composer. His projection was enormous and he is historically the maximum representative of the movement known as Ars nova
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance music

    Renaissance music or Renaissance music is the ancient music written during the Renaissance, between the years 1400 and 1600
  • Invention of printing
    1440

    Invention of printing

    Gutenburg invented the first printing press for printing many bibles and introduced printing to England.
  • The Siege of Orleans
    1449

    The Siege of Orleans

    The Siege of Orléans was a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. It was the greatest first victory for France in the war.
  • Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

    The life of Leonardo da Vinci

    He was a polymath, painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, botanist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet, and urban planner.
  • When the Baptism of Christ was painted
    1475

    When the Baptism of Christ was painted

    Baptism of Christ is a painting from the workshop of the Italian Renaissance painter Verrocchio, parts of which are attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
  • Period: 1485 to 1486

    Birth of Venus

    The picture was created by Boticelli. The goddess Venus came out of the ocean after her birth as an adult woman.
  • Fall of al-Andalus
    Jan 2, 1492

    Fall of al-Andalus

    Boabdil, the last Nasrid king, left in 1492 from the city that had been for two and a half centuries the last memory of al-Andalus made by the Catholic kings.
  • End of the middle ages
    Oct 12, 1492

    End of the middle ages

    The discovery of America consisting of the arrival in America of an expedition from the Península Ibérica led by Christopher Columbus by order of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel de Castilla and Fernando de Aragón.
  • Period: 1494 to 1498

    French invasion of the Italian peninsula.

    The french King Charles VIII entered the Italian peninsula in September 1494.
  • The Renaissance`s ends.
    1520

    The Renaissance`s ends.

    The Renaissance ends by the natural evolution of its customs, trends, concerns or tastes of each era.
  • Madrigal

    Madrigal

    The madrigal is a composition of three to six voices over a secular text, often in Italian. It had its peak in the Renaissance and early Baroque.