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Life sucked. Bubonic Plague. Peasants and Lords. Music was monophonic (occasional minstrels). Monks. God was a big deal.
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First Holy Roman Emperor Ever
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One of the earliest known music theorists.
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Leif Erikson and the Norse become the first people to discover the North American continent.
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German. Wrote Alleluia.
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French. One of the great medieval composers. The other is Perotin
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French. Great medieval composer. Other is Leonin
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One of the first major documents of human rights signed. Great time to be alive (if you had money/were a king)
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William Wallace and the Scots lose to the British at the Battle of Falkirk.
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Music got more complicated. Pretty polyphonic singing and stuff. More minstrels. Madrigals and motets! Humanism FTW! Instruments were still pretty trash
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First well-known composer of the Middle Ages. Wrote first major mass.
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Gutenberg becomes most important dude ever and invents the printing press.
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French. Ave Maria writer. Big time church music writer
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End of a long conflict for the rights of the throne of England
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Portugese dude finds Cape of Good Hope in Africa. Yay finding other continents.
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Columbus stumbles on a couple of islands. Calls it America anyway.
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French. Major Renaissance madrigal guy.
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DaVinci, the smartest guy ever (for his time), dies. Many sad.
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Italian. The master of Renaissance polyphony. Lots of Madrigals and Motets, Masses
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Henry VIII dies for being too fat.
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Italian. Wrote Orfeo. Beast of an opera master. Showed what it could do. Made opera relevant to opera
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Prog metal bands would cry in shame at how complicated the music was in this time. Lots of polyrhythmic, simultaneous harmony stuff. Strings were really dominant (other instruments were meh). Opera was also king here (think Monty's Orfeo). Think Bach, Monteverdi, Florentine Camarada, Handel, Scarlatti, Sonatas, Cantatas,
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English. Wrote Dido's Lament and all that. Great/only hope for English music
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Italian. Also known as the Champ of the Baroque era who wrote the Four Seasons.
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German. Wrote Messiah. Master of the Oratorio
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German. Critical Baroque composer. Master of the Fugue.
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German. Papa Hadyn. Wrote The Creation
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They toned down the complication here for balance. The classics were obsessed with it. Development of Sonata Allegro Form (not to be confused with Sonatas from Baroque). Think Beethoven, Mozart, Hadyn, Schubert. Symphonies. Instruments all became passable. Strings still dominant, but other instruments added to texture and feel of music. Development of concertos, chamber music, string quartet, etc.
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Austrian. Man, myth, legend. Nachtmuzik, Don Giovanni, etc.
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German. The maverick of the classical era. He pushed the boundaries, and tried to not obey the then classic Sonata Allegro Form.
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'Murica declares independence from those guys over the pond.
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James Watt invents the steam engine. Revolutionizes many industries.
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Peasants tell Marie Antoinette to "eat this"; storm Bastille and own the royal people.
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Irish got together and organized United Irishmen to fight the British. Inevitably failed. This failure caused absorption into England for next 200 years.
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Wellington tops Napoleon at Waterloo, ending Napoleon's military badassery.
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Brits sell opium to Chinese. Chinese fight back. Chinese get wrecked. Brits (in typical British fashion) take over and make a colony out of them.
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Nerd Jesus and his gang form the most overrated software/hardware company out there.
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Dream Theater releases ground-breaking progressive rock record "Images and Words". Many faces are melted.
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Aaron Rodgers, the second coming of Christ, wins his first SuperBowl with the Best Sports Team Ever