Music History Timeline

  • 476

    Middle Ages Start

    The fall of the Roman empire
  • 500

    Creation of the university

    Pope Grogery VII create the universities
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Feudalism system

    A feudal system is a type of social and political system in which landholders provide land to tenants in exchange for their loyalty and service.
  • 1000

    Trobadours

    Troubadours were poets and singers who used to travel around and perform to noble families in Italy and France in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  • 1054

    Easter Schism

    Separation between the easter christian churches and the western church
  • Period: 1170 to 1310

    Ars Antiqua

    Period of musical activity in 13th-century France, characterized by increasingly sophisticated counterpoint, that culminated in the innovations of the 14th-century Ars Nova.
  • Period: 1440 to 1521

    Josquin des Pres

    Josquin was a French composer of high Renaissance music.
  • Period: 1448 to 1449

    Siege of Orleans

    Siege of the French city of Orléans by English forces, the military turning point of the Hundred Years' War between France and England.
  • 1453

    Renaissance start

  • Period: 1485 to 1486

    Birth of venus

  • 1492

    Middle Ages End

  • 1492

    América discovery

  • 1524

    German peasants war

  • Baroque start

  • Opera's birth

  • William Shakespeare dead

  • William Shakespeare dead

  • Period: to

    30 years war

  • Isabel I dead

  • Period: to

    XVII crisis

  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

  • Classical period start

  • Baroque end

    The baroque finished with Johan Sebastian Bach dead
  • Bach dies

  • First encyclopedia

  • Period: to

    7 years war

  • Discovery of Australia

  • French revolution

  • Renaissance end

    The renaissance finished with the french revolution
  • Classical period end