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Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born in 1792 in Pesaro, Italy. He died in 1868 in Paris. -
Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was born in Vienna in 1797. He died in Vienna in 1826. -
Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz was born in 1803 in La Cote-Saint-Andre. He died in 1869 in Paris. -
Period: to
Early Romantic
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Chopin
Frederic Francois Chopin was born in 1810 in Warsaw. He died in 1849 in Paris. -
Robert Schumann
Robert Alexander Schumann was born in 1810 in Zwickau, Germany. He died in 1856 in Endenich, Germany. -
Liszt
Franz Liszt was born in 1811 in Doborjan, Hungary. He died in 1886 in Bayreuth. -
Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was born in 1813 in Leipzig, Germany. He died in 1883 in Venice. -
Verdi
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was born in 1813 near Busetto Italy. He died in 1901 in Milan. -
Napoleon Defeated: Battle of Waterloo
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Clara Schumann
Clara Schumann was born in 1819 in Leipzig. She died in 1896 in Frankfurt. -
Smetana
Friedrich Smetana was born in 1824 in Litmosyl. He died in 1884 in Prague. -
Brahms
Johannes Brahms was born in 1833 in Hamburg, He died in 1867 in Vienna. -
Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 in Votkinsk. He died in 1893 in St. Petersburg. -
Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in 1843 in Bergen, Nowary. He died in 1907 in Bergen, Norway. -
Period: to
Late Romantic
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Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy. He died in 1923 in Brussels. -
Mahler
Gustav Mahler was born in 1860 in Kalischt, Moravia. He died in 1911 in Vienna. -
Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France in 1862. He died in 1918 in Paris. -
Strauss
Richard Georg Strauss was born in Munich in 1864. He died in 1949 in Garmisch. -
Typewriter Invented
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Schonberg
Arnold Schonberg was born in Vienna in 1875. He died in 1951 in Los Angeles, California. -
Ives
Charles Edward Ives was born in 1874 in Danbury, Connecticut. He died in 1954 in New York. -
Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was born in 1875 in Ciboure, France. He died in 1937 in Paris. -
Bartok
Bela Bartok was born in 1881 in Nagyszentmiklos, Hungary. He died in 1945 in New York. -
Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky was born in Oranienbaum, Russia. He died in 1971 in New York. -
Orff
Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was born in 1895 in Munich, Germany. He died in 1982 in Munich, Germany. -
Gershwin
Jacob Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1898. He died in Los Angeles in 1937. -
Kodak introduces the Brownie Camera
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Period: to
Early 20th Century
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Copland
Aaron Copland was born in Brooklyn in 1900. He died in North Tarrytown, New York in 1990. -
First Silent Movie: "The Great Train Robbery"
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Wright Brothers First Flight
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San Francisco Earthquake
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Picasso Introduces Cubism
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Model-T introduced by Ford
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Oreo Cookies Introduced
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Titanic Sinks
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Cage
John Cage was born in 1912 in Los Angeles, California. He died in 1992 in New York. -
World War I Begins
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Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was born in 1918 in Larence, Massachusetts. He died in 1990 in New York. -
World War I Ends
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Reich
Stephen Reich was born in 1936 in New York. He is still living. -
Period: to
Late 20th Century/Early 21 Century
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First Color TV Broadcast
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First Playboy Published
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Fidel Castro Becomes Dictator
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Andy Warhol exhibits his Campbell Soup Cans
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Higdon
Jennifer Higdon was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1962. She is still alive. -
Woodstock Begins
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The Greatest Day on Earth: My Birthday
Aleah McLendon was born! -
Gay Marriage Legalized
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The Day the World Ended (i.e. Trump wins presidential election)