modern era

  • start of modern era

  • Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection is published

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Austria, String Quartet No. 2
  • albert einstein

  • helen keller

  • igor stravinsky

    Russia, Renard
  • babe ruth

  • George Gershwin

    America, Porgy and Bess
  • Duke Ellington

    America, Concerto for Cootie
  • Dmitri Shostakovich

    Russian, To October
  • U.S. enters World War I

  • George Gershwin

  • Arnold Schoenberg

  • igor stravinsky

  • Duke Ellington

  • end of modern era

  • Dmitri Shostakovich