General and Music History

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  • Aug 5, 1397

    Guillaume Dufay

  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Aug 11, 1400

    Hundred Years War

  • Aug 11, 1450

    Josquin des Prez

  • Aug 11, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • Aug 11, 1517

    Reformation

  • Aug 11, 1525

    Palestrina

  • Nov 14, 1539

    William Byrd

  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Claudio Monteverdi

  • Australia is discovered

  • Pilgrims land at Plymoth Rock

  • Buxtehude

  • Antonio Vivaldi

  • JS Bach

  • George Frideric Handel

  • Joseph Haydn

  • George Washington

    1732-1799
  • Period: to

    Classical

  • WA Mozart

  • Industrial Revolution

    1760-1840

  • American Revolution

    1763-1783

  • Beethoven

  • Franz Schubert

  • Fanny MEndelssohn

  • Feliz Mendelssohn

  • Abraham Lincoln

    1809-1865

  • Robert Schumann

  • War of 1812

    1812-1814

  • Richard Wagner

  • Period: to

    Romantic

  • Clara Schumann

  • Johannes Brahms

  • Modest Mussorgsky

  • Pietr Tchaikovsky

  • Mexican War

    1846-1846

  • John Philip Sousa

  • Mahler

  • Civil War

    1861-1865

  • Claude Debussy

  • Amy Beach

  • Charles Ives

  • Arnold Schoenberg

  • Edison invents the lightbulb

  • Igor Stravinsky

  • George Gershwin

  • Duke Ellington

  • Period: to

    20th Century

  • Aaron Copland

  • Wright Brothers achieve flight

  • John Cage

  • WWI

    1914-1918

  • Leonard Bernstein

  • John Williams

  • WWII

    1939-1945

  • John Rutter

  • John Adams

  • U.S. lands on the moon

  • Eric Whitacre

  • Period: to

    Contemporary

  • 9/11

    John Adams writes piece "On the Transmigration of Souls"