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Period: 500 to Jan 1, 1500
Middle Ages (5th - 15th cent)
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540
Pope Gregory I (540 – 604), Italian
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Jan 1, 800
Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
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Jan 1, 991
Guido D’Arezzo (991 – 1033), Italian
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Jan 1, 1096
Oxford University is founded
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Jan 1, 1098
Hildegard Von Bingen (1098 -1179), German
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Jan 1, 1135
Leonin (1135/1150 – 1202) precise years unknown; French
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Jan 1, 1200
Perotin (12th century) exact years unknown; French
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Jan 1, 1265
Thomas Aquinas begins work on the Summa Theologica, his best- known work. It remains unfinished.
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Jan 1, 1268
Approximately when eyeglasses were invented in Italy; the inventor is unknown.
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Jan 1, 1300
Guillaume de Machaut (1300 – 1377), French
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance (14th -17th cent)
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Jan 1, 1428
Joan of Arc is burned at the stake as a witch after ecclesiastical trial.
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Jan 1, 1439
Johannes Gutenburg invents the movable type printing press.
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Jan 1, 1450
Josquin Desprez (1450 – 1521), French
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Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus encounters the Americas on his transatlantic maritime expedition.
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Jan 1, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa.
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Jan 1, 1504
Michaelangelo completes his 5 meter marble statue of David.
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Jan 1, 1505
Jacques Arcadelt (1505 – 1568), France
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Jan 1, 1525
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina (1525 – 1594), Italian
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Jan 1, 1567
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643), Italian
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Period: to
Baroque Era (1600 - 1750)
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Italian, Baroque art master Caravaggio begins painting David with the Head of Goliath.
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Gallileo sees the moons of Jupiter through his telescope.
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William Shakespeare dies on April 23rd, his 52nd birthday.
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Johannes Vermeer creates his infamous oil painting, Girl with a Pearl Earring.
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Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695), English
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Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741), Italian
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The Province of Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn on March 4th.
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750), German
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Guiseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757), Italian
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George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759), German
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Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809), Austrian
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Period: to
Classical Era (1750 - 1825)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Austrian
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Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 – 1827), German
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The Boston Massacre occurs on March 5th.
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Members of the Constitutional Convention sign the United States Constitution on September 17th.
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The French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille in Paris.
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The United States capital is moved from Philadelphia, PA to Washington D.C.
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Franz Gall writes about phrenology, (the idea that a person’s skull shape and placement of bumps on the head can reveal personality traits.
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Beginning of the first Opium War between Britain and China.
