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476
The Western Roman Empire fell.
Conflicts of interest and civil wars, the political and administrative division and military spending and economic problems. -
Period: 680 to 730
The Gregorian chant
The Gregorian chant is sacred music which is sung a capella, that is, all the singers in a choir of monks sing the same melody without accompaniment. Gregorian chant, monophonic, or unison, liturgical music of the Roman Catholic Church, used to accompany the text of the mass and the canonical hours, or divine office. -
Jun 8, 793
Vikings raid Lindisfarne.
The Vikings took the monks by surprise and attacked from the sea. The assailants dug up the altar and stole the church's treasures, a later source tells us. They killed some of the monks and stripped others naked. Many drowned in the sea. Some, including children, were chained to their ships, perhaps for ransom, perhaps to be sold into slavery. -
Oct 14, 1066
The battle of Hastings
At the Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy defeats Harold Godwinson and establishes his rule over England. -
Period: 1175 to 1253
Roberto Grosseteste
Roberto Grosseteste was a Franciscan scholastic philosopher, erudite in almost all the indications of the knowledge of his time. He served as Bishop of Lincoln during the 13th century. -
Period: 1245 to 1288
Adam de la Halle
He was a troubadour, since he composed his works in the language of oil, a French poet and musician who ended the long-established tradition of writing poetry and liturgical music, being one of the founders of secular theater in France. -
Period: 1347 to 1353
The Black Death
It was a disease that killed more than half of the population of Europe -
Period: 1453 to
The Renaissance
The Modern period started with the fall of the Byzantine empire, and ended
with the French Revolution.
The first centuries brought many changes. After the
discovery of America, trading routes and colonies were established all over the world.
Monarchies strengthened their power and laid the foundations of the modern state.
Science made huge advances and economic growth meant big social transformations. -
1486
The birth of Venus
The birth of Venus is part of the sensitivity of the Renaissance, a time when the representation of the myths of Classical Antiquity was renewed, in which the Renaissance found hidden truths about human nature. -
Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of America
Colón conquer América -
1506
Christopher Columbus
He was the first European to set foot in South America. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer from Genoa. His four Renaissance voyages across the Atlantic changed the course of world history. -
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known representative of the 16th-century Roman School of musical composition. -
Period: to
Baroque style
Baroque is understood as the architectural style carried out in the 17th and part of the 18th centuries , characterized by the profusion of ornaments in contrast to the sober style of the classical Renaissance.