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1500
THE BEGGINING
The Baroque began in Italy, sheltered and energized by the Catholic hierarchy, which had in art an excellent propaganda weapon to stop the Protestant Reformation, after the Council of Trent had definitively laid the foundations for the restoration of Catholicism. -
1522
New York
The first explorer to glimpse the island of Manhattan in 1524 was the navigator Giovanni da Verrazzano in the service of the French crown. The area, which he called New Angoulême, was inhabited by the Algonquian and Iroquois Indians. -
1556
the accession of Philip II to the throne
In Spain, the accession of Philip II to the throne and the beginning of Spanish hegemony -
Period: 1575 to
Puebla Cathedral
Construction began at the initiative of Brother Julián Garcés, bishop of Tlaxcala, between 1536 and 1539. Subsequently, the viceregal authorities ordered the construction of a larger and more attractive temple. This project was entrusted in 1575 to the architect Francisco Becerra. -
1580
birth of opera
Although its roots are found in Greek theater - which later gave rise to religious dramas, court masquerades, street pastorals and madrigals, among others - opera itself was born in the courts of Florence, in 1580 -
Death of Elisabeth l
24 March 1603, Richmond Palace, Richmond, United Kingdom, from smallpox. -
Period: to
The Thirty Years' War
Baroque Europe is a period of crisis and political instability marked by conflicts. The Thirty Years' War (1618 - 1648), plague epidemics, the decline in gold brought from the Americas, left a trail of hunger and poverty that influenced the decline in the population. -
Period: to
English Civil war
The First English Civil War began in 1642 and ended in 1646. It consists of the first episode of a series of three wars known as the English Civil War (or "Wars"), in which Parliamentary forces and the realistic. -
Period: to
St. Peter's square
With Berini ´ s hand and Pope Alexander XII support. -
end of the musical baroque
The end of the Baroque period is established with the death of the composer Johan Sebastian Bach on July 28, 1750.