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Period: 500 to
Middle Ages-Classical Era
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Period: 500 to 1300
Middle Ages
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540
Gregory the Great, Rome
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800
Charlemagne Crowned Holy Roman Emperor
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991
Guido of Arezzo, Italy
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1098
Hildegard Von Bingen, County Palatine of the Rhine, Holy Roman Empire
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1100
Pérotin, Paris
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1135
Léonin, Paris
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1150
Arnault Daniel, Ribérac
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1271
Marco Polo Travels to China
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1300
Guillaume de Machaut, Reims
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Period: 1300 to
Renaissance Era
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1348
Black Death Arrives in Europe
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1450
Josquin Desprez, Northern France
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1455
Gutenberg Bible is printed
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1483
Martin Luther, Eisleben, Germany
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1492
Columbus lands in the New World
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1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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1505
Jacob Arcadelt, France or Belgium
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1517
Martin Luther starts Protestant Reformation
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1525
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, Rome, Italy
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1559
Elizabeth I Crowned queen in England
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1567
Monteverdi, Cremona, Italy
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Period: to
Baroque Era
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Production of Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Milan, Italy
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King James' version of the bible printed
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Barbara Strozzi, Venice, Italy
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Period of Commonwealth begins in Europe
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John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is published
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Venice, Italy
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Georg Friedrich Händel, Halle, Germany
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Eisenach, Central Germany
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Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Naples, Italy
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Purcell, London
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George Washington is born
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Franz Joseph Haydn, Rohrau
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Maria Theresa succeeds Austrian throne
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Charlemagne, n.d.
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Joseph Bologne, Baillif, Guadeloupe
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Period: to
Classical Era
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Mozart, Salzburg, Austria
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Ludwig Van Beethoven, Center West Germany
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Beginning of American Revolution
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French Revolution begins
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Louisiana Purchase
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Napoleon crowned emperor of France
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Jane Austin's "Pride and Prejudice" is published
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Napoleon defeated at Waterloo