Charm of Music

  • 476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • 570

    Prophet Mohammed born at Mecca

  • 991

    Guido D'Arezzo

    Italian, died 1033
  • 991

    Guido D'Arezzo

    From Northeastern Italy, then Arezzo, died after 1033
  • 1098

    Hildegard of Bingen

    Holy Roman Empire, died 1179
  • 1099

    First Crusade conquers Jerusalem

  • 1135

    Leonin

    From Paris, died 1201
  • 1150

    Perotin

    From Paris
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

  • 1300

    Guillaume de Machaut

    From Riems, died 1377
  • 1338

    The Hundred Years War

  • 1348

    English faces Black Death Plague

  • 1450

    Josquin Desprez; Juschino; Joducus Pratensis, Joducus a Prato

    From Northern France, died 1521
  • 1492

    Discovery of America

  • 1498

    Vasco de Gama reaches India

  • 1505

    Jacques or Jacob Arcadelt

    From France or Belgium, died 1568
  • 1517

    Martin Luther sets off the Reformation

  • 1525

    Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

    Italian, died 1564
  • 1567

    Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi

    From Venice, Italy, died 1643
  • British East India Company founded

  • Henry Purcell

    From London, died 1695
  • Great Plague of England

  • Glorious Revolution in England

  • Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

    From Venice, Italy, died 1741
  • Newton's Laws of Motion and Gravity

  • Georg Friedrich Handel

    German, died 1759
  • Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti

    From Naples, Italy, died 1757
  • Franz Joseph Haydn

    From Eastern Austria, died 1809
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    German, died 1750
  • Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

    Austrian, died 1791
  • Ludwig Van Beethoven

    German, died 1827
  • Declaration of American Independence

  • George Washington elected President of America

  • Death of Napolean

  • American Civil War

  • Panama Canal

  • World War I

  • Hitler becomes German Chancellor

  • Pearl Harbor attack

  • Lunar Landing