Timeline

By m710ucla

  • Ravel Born

  • Lightbulb is invented

  • Mercedez produces first commercial automobile

  • Invention of the disc record

  • Film invented

  • Spanish American War

  • Duke Ellington Born

  • George Gershwin Born

  • Freud publishes "The interpretation of Dreams"

  • Publication of Maple Leaf Rag

  • First controlled flight

  • Ravel - Quartet in F

  • Japan colonizes Korea

  • Einstein publishes Special Relativity

  • Model T

  • Mexican Revolution

  • Chinese Revolution

  • Rite of Spring

  • World War I

  • World War I Starts

  • Russian Revolution

  • End of WWI

  • Bolshevik Revolution

  • Harlem Renaissance begins

  • Prohibition begins

  • Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

  • Ellington - Begins to play at Cotton Club

  • Ellington - Black and Tan Fantasy

  • Stock Market Crash

  • Stalin comes to power

  • End of Harlem Renaissance

  • Gershwin - Girl Crazy

  • Ellington - Mood Indigo

  • Prohibition ends

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

  • FDR becomes president

  • Collapse of Weimar Republic

  • Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

  • Spanish Civil War

  • Stalin begins the "Terror"

  • George Gershwin Dies

  • Kristallnacht

  • Anschluss

  • Non0aggression pact (Stalin/Hitler)

  • Paris falls

  • Attack on Stalingrad

  • Ellington - Beginning to See the Light

  • Long Play (LP)

  • Television Networks

  • Korean War