Western Music History 1 Timeline

  • Period: 450 to Jan 1, 1450

    Middle Ages period

  • Jan 1, 1000

    Troubadours and Trouveres began

  • Jan 1, 1163

    Beginning of Notre Dame Cathedral

  • Jan 1, 1170

    School of Notre Dame

  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carte signed

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Troubadours and Trouveres ended

  • Jan 1, 1300

    Machaut was born

  • Jan 1, 1377

    Machaut died

  • Jan 1, 1387

    The Canterbury Tales written

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Renaissance period

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus reaches America

  • Jan 1, 1503

    Mona Lisa

  • Jan 1, 1504

    The David

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther's start of Reformation

  • Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • Shakespeare's Hamlet

  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

  • Galileo confirms that the Earth revolves around the sun

  • Bach is born

  • Witchcraft trials in Salem

  • Concerto No. 5 in D major

  • Handel, Messiah

  • Earliest Notated Gregorian chant manuscripts