MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

  • 354

    MUSICAL GENRES IN THE MIDDLE AGES

    MUSICAL GENRES IN THE MIDDLE AGES
    The most important novelty that it introduced was:
    Rules for the division of the Brevis figures (equivalent to a quarter note or a dotted quarter note, depending on the measure) and the Semibrevis (equivalent to a quarter note or a dotted quarter note, depending on the measure), with which the notational system included figures to designate smaller and smaller values.
  • 476

    Beginning of the Middle Ages

    Beginning of the Middle Ages
    We consider the beginning of the Middle Ages the time when the Western Roman Empire fell, in 476
  • 500

    Feudalism

    Feudalism
    One of the most characteristic systems of the Middle Ages is feudalism.
    This long historical period, known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage. This regime was established throughout Europe and worked in a similar way in all countries.
  • 500

    Rise of the monasteries

    Rise of the monasteries
    As the Empire fell apart, a few men decided to get away from the violence of the Middle Ages and retreat to secluded places. Monasticism is not typical of Christianity, since it has manifested itself in other cultures. However, the monks of the Middle Ages, taking the example of Saint Benedict, had a very important role in supporting and preserving the cultural remains of the disappeared Roman Empire.
  • Period: 622 to 1492

    Islam and the Reconquest

    Islam was born in 622 AD in Arabia and quickly spread throughout North Africa. It continued to advance, invading the Iberian Peninsula and reaching France, taking advantage of the weakness of the small Christian kingdoms, very divided at that time.
  • Period: 1073 to 1085

    Gregorian Reform

    Result of the measures adopted by the Roman pontiff Gregory VII. These measures sought the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff.
  • 1492

    End of the Middle Ages

    End of the Middle Ages
    The Middle Ages finished with the Fall of the Byzantine Empire and the Discovery of America.
  • 1517

    LUTHERAN REFORM

    LUTHERAN REFORM
    It is known as the Protestant Reformation —or, simply, the Reformation— to the Christian religious movement initiated in Germany in the 16th century by Martin Luther, which led to a schism in the Catholic Church to give rise to numerous churches and religious currents grouped under the denomination of protestantism
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    ENGLISH REVOLUTION

    The English Revolution took place, a series of confrontations for political power between the absolute monarchy and the members of Parliament. In England, the Glorious Revolution put an end to the absolutist monarchy and consecrated the parliamentary monarchy.
  • INDEPENDENCE OF UNITED STATES

    INDEPENDENCE OF UNITED STATES
    July 4 commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    FRENCH REVOLUTION
    The French Revolution was a political, social and ideological movement that developed in France, from 1789 to 1804