Middle Ages-Classical Era By Molly_Postupak Period: 500 to 1825 Middle Ages-Classical Era Period: 500 to 1300 Middle Ages 540 Gregory the Great, Rome 800 Charlemagne Crowned Holy Roman Emperor 991 Guido of Arezzo, Italy 1098 Hildegard Von Bingen, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire 1100 Pérotin, Paris 1135 Léonin, Paris 1150 Arnault Daniel, Ribérac 1271 Marco Polo Travels to China 1300 Guillaume de Machaut, Reims Period: 1300 to 1600 Renaissance Era 1348 Black Death Arrives in Europe 1450 Josquin Desprez, Northern France 1455 Gutenberg Bible is printed 1483 Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany 1492 Columbus lands in the New World 1504 Michelangelo sculpts the David 1505 Jacob Arcadelt, France or Belgium 1517 Martin Luther starts Protestant Reformation 1525 Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, Rome, Italy 1559 Elizabeth I Crowned queen in England 1567 Monteverdi, Cremona, Italy Period: 1600 to 1750 Baroque Era 1602 Production of Shakespeare's Hamlet 1602 Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Milan, Italy 1611 King James' version of the bible printed 1619 Barbara Strozzi, Venice, Italy 1649 Period of Commonwealth begins in Europe 1667 John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is published 1678 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Venice, Italy 1685 Georg Friedrich Händel, Halle, Germany 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach, Central Germany 1685 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Naples, Italy 1695 Purcell, London 1732 George Washington is born 1732 Franz Joseph Haydn, Rohrau 1740 Maria Theresa succeeds Austrian throne 1742 Charlemagne, n.d. 1745 Joseph Bologne, Baillif, Guadeloupe Period: 1750 to 1825 Classical Era 1756 Mozart, Salzburg, Austria 1771 Ludwig Van Beethoven, Center West Germany 1775 Beginning of American Revolution 1789 French Revolution begins 1803 Louisiana Purchase 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor of France 1813 Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice" is published 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo