Music Eras

Harp added to the orchastra

1600

Baroque Era

Period: 1600 to 1750

Caccini's new vocal style Nuvoe Musiche was invented

1601

Thomas Morley Dies

1602

Died on October 1602

Establishment of Dutch East India Company

1602

Death of Queen Elizabeth-1

1603

Thomas Robinson's School of Musicke is invented

1603

Heinrich Albert is born

Jun 28, 1604

Albert was born on June 28, 1604

Giacomo Carissimi is Born

Apr 18, 1605

Carissimi is born on April 18, 1605

Bartolomaus Gese Died

1613

Bartholomew Gese died on Agust 1613

Masses and Motets are invented

1614

Giulio Caccini Dies

Dec 10, 1618

Caccini was born on October 8, 1551 and died on December 10, 1618 15 days before Christmas

Arrival of the pilgrims

1620

Marc Antonio Cesti is born

Aug 5, 1623

Cesti was born on August 5, 1623

Discovery of New York

1626

Goiovanni Legrenzi is born

1626

Polo Aiostini dies

1629

John Bull dies

1640

Death of Galileo Galilei

1642

Antonio Stradivari is born

1644

Johann Statlmayr dies

1648

Gregorio Allegri dies

1652

Johann Joseph Fux is born

1660

Halfway Covenant

Oct 15, 1662

Giuseppe Aldrovandini is born

1665

Completion of St. Peters Square

1667

John Blow becomes an organist

1670

Andreas Hammerschmidt dies

1675

First ballets arrive in Germany

1680

George Fredrick Handel is born

1685

Giovanni Legrenzi dies

1690

Salem witch trials

1692

Henry Purcell dies

1695

Joseph Sauver measures and explains vibrations

1700

War of Spanish Succession

1701

First Great Awakening

Oct 15, 1730

Ben Frank published Poor Richard

1732

Francis Coupern dies

Sep 11, 1733

Francis died on September 11, 1733

John Peter Zengers trial

Oct 15, 1733

Johann Christia Bach was born

1736

He was the youngest member of the Bach family

Stonos Rebellion

Sep 9, 1739

Luigi Boccherini is born

Feb 19, 1743

He was born during the Baroque era on February 19,1743 and died on May 28,1805 during the Romantic Era

Bach dies

Jul 28, 1750

Bach is born March 31,1685

Classical Era

Period: 1751 to 1825

Ben Frank made the Lightning Rod

1752

French Indian War

1754

Fourth Dictionary published by Samuel Johnson

1755

Mozart is born

Jan 27, 1756

Third Cranatic War

1763

Pontiacs War

1766

Beethoven is born

1770

Decoration of Independence

1776

The Industrial Revolution

1780

1780-1840

American Revolution

Aug 3, 1783

The French Revolution

1789

William Blake publishes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1790

Franz Schubert is born

Jan 31, 1791

Mozart dies

Dec 5, 1791

Died from severe miliary fever

Rossini is born

Feb 29, 1792

Henry Steinway is born

Feb 15, 1797

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads

1798

French Revolution

Oct 9, 1799

Felix Mendelssohn

Feb 3, 1809

Richard Wagner is born

May 22, 1813

Metronome is invented

1815

Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein

1818

1819: John Keats publishes Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale

1819

Lord Byron publishes Don Juan

1819

Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound

1820

Prometheus was the titan who stole fire from the gods and brought it to mankind. Shelley took the famous Greek myth and turned it into a play.

John Keats dies

1821

He was only 25

Percy Shelly dies

1822

Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns in a boating accident

Romanticism still served a sophisticated

1825

Romantic Era

Period: 1826 to 1900

social and political stresses following the French Revolution, and the resulting nationalistic trends.

1828

Louisiana Purchase, Monroe Doctrine, McCormick invents the reaper, Morse telegraph

1832

Germany united under Bismarck, Edison invents electric light

1836

Goya, Gericault, Corot, Turner, Delacroix, Millet, Daumier.

1844

ynamics were more explicit than those of Classicism

1845

1901

1901

President William Mckinley is assassinated

Modern/20th Century Era

Period: 1901 to 2018

1907

1907

Oklahoma becomes a state in the U.S.

Arizona and New Mexico

1912

These two states become a part of the U.S. Nation

Fourth Symphony

1916

Charles Ives finishes the Fourth Symphony, which soon becomes his defining piece as a musician.

Claude Debussy Dies

Mar 25, 1918

Debussy's life comes to a tragic end due to colorectal cancer.

The Queen of the Blues

1923

Bessie Smiths, AKA "Queen of the Blues", creates her first song: Down Hearted Blues.

Franklin Roosvelt

1932

He becomes president

Electric Guitars

1936

The now-popular electric guitar is debuted.

Golden Gate bridge

1937

It opens for the fist time to be used

George Gershwin Dies

Jul 11, 1937

A brain tumor cuts Gershwin's life sadly short, leaving an impression that there was still great compositions to be made.

Pearl Harbor

1941

Japan attacks pearl Harbor

Bill Haley and the Comets

1954

Bill Hale and the Comets begin writing songs that would soon become some of the most popular hit songs in the rock n' roll genre.

Martin Luther King

1963

Martin Luther king gives his ''I have a dream'' speech

Armstrong

1969

Neil Armstrong goes to the moon

Beatles Disband

1970

The Beatles officially disband. By the end of the year, each member had created their own solo album.

Jim Morrison dies

Jul 3, 1971

Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27.

Walkman

1978

Sony gives an introduction to the Walkman, the very first portable stereo.

Ronald Regan

1980

Ronald Regan becomes president

New Oreleans

2005

Hurricane Katrina Attacks and devastates New Oreleans

Barack Obama

2008

He becomes the president