Romantic Era - Present

By megpark

  • Giaochino Antonio Rossini

    Early Romantic, 1792 - 1868, Italian

  • Franz Peter Schubert

    Early Romantic, 1797 - 1826, Viennese

  • Louis Berlioz

    Early Romantic, 1803- 1869, French
  • Haiti declares independence from France

    Haiti declares independence from France

    first black nation to gain freedom from European colonial rule

  • Robert Schumann

    Early Romantic, 1810 - 1856, German

  • Frederic Chopin

    Early Romantic, 1810 - 1849, French

  • Franz Liszt

    Early Romantic, 1811 - 1886, Hungarian

  • Guiseppe Verdi

    Middle Romantic, 1813 - 1901, French

  • Wilhelm Wagner

    Middle Romantic, 1813 - 1883, German

  • Clara Schumann

    Middle Romantic, 1819 - 1896, German

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Middle Romantic, 1824 - 1884, Czech
  • Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph

    Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph

  • Death of Francisco Goya

    Death of Francisco Goya

    artist

  • Johannes Brahms

    Middle Romantic, 1833 - 1897, German
  • Slavery abolished in British Empire

    Slavery abolished in British Empire

  • First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China

    First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China

    over the importation of the opium drug into China.

  • Tchaikovsky

    Late Romantic, 1840 - 1893, Russian

  • Edvard Grieg

    Middle Romantic, 1843 - 1907, Scandanavian
  • California gold rush begins

    California gold rush begins

  • Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" published

    Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" published

  • Puccinni

    Late Romantic/ Early 20th Cent, 1858 - 1923, Italian

  • Gustav Mahler

    Late Romantic, 1860 - 1911, Austrian
  • Start of American Civil War

    Start of American Civil War

  • Achille-Claude Debussy

    Early Modernist/ Impressionist, 1862 - 1918, French

  • Richard Strauss

    Late Romantic, 1864 - 1949, German

  • Charles Edward Ives

    Early 20th century, 1874 - 1954, American
  • The first Kentucky Derby is held

    The first Kentucky Derby is held

  • Joseph-Maurice Ravel

    Early Modern/ Impressionist, 1875 - 1937, French

  • Arnold Schonberg

    Early 20th Cent, 1875 - 1951, American
  • Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light

    Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light

  • Bela Bartok

    Early 20th Cent/ 1881 - 1945, Hungarian

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Early 20th Century, 1882 - 1971, Russian
  • Death of Vincent Van Gogh

    Death of Vincent Van Gogh

    artist
  • New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.

    New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.

  • Carl Heinrich Maria Orff

    20th Cent/Modern, 1895 - 1982, German

  • Jacob Gershwine

    20th Cent/ Jazz Classical Crossover, 1898 - 1937, American

  • Aaron Copland

    Early-Mid 20th Cent, 1900 - 1990, American
  • Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"

    Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"

  • New York City subway system opens

    New York City subway system opens

  • John Milton Cage Jr.

    Mid-Late 20th Cent, 1912 - 1992, American
  • World War I begins

    World War I begins

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Late 20th Cent, 1918 - 1990, American- Ukranian

  • Stephen Reich

    Late 20th cent/ present, 1936 - , American
  • Amelia Earhart lost somewhere in Pacific on round-the-world flight

    Amelia Earhart lost somewhere in Pacific on round-the-world flight

  • Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic

    Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic

  • Castro takes over after Cuban President Batista resigns and flees

    Castro takes over after Cuban President Batista resigns and flees

  • Jennifer Higdon

    21st cent, 1962 - , American
  • Ronald Reagan takes oath as 40th president

    Ronald Reagan takes oath as 40th president

  • Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize

    Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize