MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

  • Period: 1885 BCE to 1885 BCE

    Third Anglo-Burmese War

    Was a military conflict that took place between November 14 and 27, 1885, with sporadic resistance and insurgency continuing until 1887. It was the last of three wars fought between the Burmese and the British in the 19th century
  • 476

    Start of the Middle ages

    The fall of the Western Roman Empire.
  • 500

    Creation of the University

    The first medieval universities were born from the palatine, monastic and episcopal schools.
  • 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

    Trobadours

    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.
  • 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 the Middle ages

    Discovery of America.
  • 1501

    David by miguel angel

    It is a white marble sculpture 5.17 meters high and 5572 kilograms in mass.
  • Period: 1529 to 1531

    The kappel wars

    They are the first wars of religion to occur in Europe. They took place in Kappel, Switzerland.
  • 1556

    Philip II and hegemony

    In Spain, the accession to the throne of Philip II and the beginning of Spanish hegemony (which would last until the Thirty Years Wars).
  • 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.
  • Don Quijote de la Mancha

    Miguel de Cervantes began to write Don Quijote in one of this prison periods.
  • Start of the Baroque

    Pessimistic view of life and the importance of feelings.
  • Death of Tomás Luis of Victoria

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

    The Magical Prodigious is a drama by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.
  • Period: to

    English Revolution

    It extends from the end of the reign of Charles I of England, through the British Republic and Oliver Cromwell's English Protectorate and ends with the Glorious Revolution.
  • The first public concert

    The first known public concerts for which admission was charged were given in London by the violinist John Banister at his home in Whitefriars.
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    Joann Sebastian Bach

    He was a German composer, organist, haspsichordist, conductor, violinist, singer and teacher of the Baroque period.
  • The Four Seasons

    It was a group of four concertos for violin and the orchestra by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Start of the Classical period

    Bach's death
  • Period: to

    The Industrial Revolution

    Is the process of economic, social and technological transformation that began in the second half of the eighteenth century in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
  • Period: to

    Russo-Swedish War

    The war was started by Gustaf III of Sweden for internal reasons.
  • End of the Baroque

    The death of Johann Sebastian Bach.
  • The encyclopedia.

    It is a reference work that seeks to summarize and compile human knowledge.
  • Period: to

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    He was a composer, pianist, conductor and professor of the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, master of Classicism, considered one of the most influential and outstanding musicians in history.
  • 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.
  • King George II of Great Britain dies.

    He was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and one of the prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Period: to

    Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson was an American statesman, the seventh president of the United States. Jackson was born at the end of the colonial era somewhere on the still unmarked border of North Carolina and South Carolina.
  • End of the Renaissance

    French Revolution
  • Period: to

    Richard Wagner

    Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German Romantic composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright, and music theorist.
  • The Napoleonic Wars

    The Napoleonic Wars, also called the Coalition Wars, were a series of wars that took place during the time Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte ruled France.
  • End of the Classical period

    Beethoven's symphonies
  • Start of the Romantic period

    Revolutionary reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism.
  • Carabobo's Battle

    With the Battle of Carabobo, the war of independence in Venezuela ends.
  • Period: to

    Birth of the Russian composer Alexander Borodin

    He was a composer, doctor and chemist, prominent among the composers of Russian nationalism, also known for being part of the group Los Cinco.
  • The Raven

    The Raven is a narrative poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It constitutes his most famous poetic composition, since it gave him international recognition.
  • 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.
  • Ofelia

    Is a fictional character in the play Hamlet by English playwright William Shakespeare. She is a noblewoman from Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and in love with Prince Hamlet.
  • Start of the 20th century

    It was the last century of the 2nd millennium in the Gregorian calendar.
  • Period: to

    Salvador Dalí

    Marqués de Dalí de Púbol was a 20th-century Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, set designer, and writer.
  • End of the Romantic period

    It began to give way to new literary movements.
  • Period: to

    John Cage

    He was an American composer, music theorist, artist, and philosopher.
  • The great Depression

    Also known as the 1929 crash, it was a major global financial crisis.
  • Period: to

    Winter War (Russo-Finnish War)

    It erupted when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the start of World War II.
  • Lolita

    It is the best-known novel by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov, first published in 1955.
  • Rap

    Rap is a musical genre that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and slang," which is performed in a variety of types, usually to musical accompaniment.
  • End of the 20th century

    It was characterized by great social transformations; advances in technology, medicine and science in general, but also by a large number of deaths caused by wars, revolutions, ethnic massacres and state terrorism.