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Period: 476 to 1400
middle age
The medieval era, often called The Middle Ages or the Dark Ages, began around 476 A.D. following a great loss of power throughout Europe by the Roman Emperor. The Middle Ages span roughly 1,000 years, ending between 1400 and 1450. -
Period: 680 to 730
Gregorian chant
Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant developed mainly in western and central Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, -
992
GUIDO DE AREZZO IS BORN
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1050
GUIDO DE AREZZO DIES
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1135
Leonin is born
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Period: 1170 to 1310
Ars antiqua
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1201
Leonin dies
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Nov 23, 1221
Alfonso x el sabio is born
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1230
Perotin dies
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Apr 4, 1284
Alfonso x el sabio dies
Lived for 65 years -
Period: 1320 to 1380
Ars nova
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Period: 1400 to
Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and surpass the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity -
May 29, 1453
fall of Constantinople (ottoman empire)
The fall of Constantinople was a military event that occurred on May 29, 1453 in which the Ottoman Empire was victorious. It meant the end of the Middle Ages on the European continent and the end of the last remaining vestiges of the Roman Empire in the East. -
1455
JOHANNES GUTENBERG INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS
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Oct 12, 1492
RENAISSANCE/DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
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Jul 16, 1495
the first atomic bomb explodes
The first atomic bomb was built in Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II under a top secret U.S. government program called the Manhattan Project. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, in an event known as the Trinity Test. The first atomic bomb used in warfare was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945 -
1550
Perotin is BORN
Perotín, called in French Pérotin le Grand or in Latin Magister Perotinus Magnus, was a medieval French composer, who was born in Paris between 1155 and 1160 and died around 1230. Considered the most important composer of the School of Notre Dame of Paris, in which The polyphonic style began to take shape. -
Period: to
BAROQUE
The Baroque is a highly ornate and elaborate style of architecture, art and design that flourished in Europe in the 17th and first half of the 18th century. Originating in Italy, its influence quickly spread across Europe and it became the first visual style to have a significant worldwide impact -
Period: to
Thirty Years’ War
The Thirty Years' War was a devastating war in Europe, motivated by religious and political divisions between supporters of the Protestant Reformation and those of the Counter-Reformation. This conflict involved the major European powers and resulted in approximately 8 million deaths, marking a significant shift in European history. The war had a lasting impact on politics and religion in Europe, altering the balance of power on the continent. -
Barbara Strozzi is born
Barbara Strozzi was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. This was achieved without support from the Church or consistent patronage from the nobility. -
Barbara Strozzi dies
Lived for 58 years -
VIVALDI IS BORN
Antonio Vivaldi was a Baroque composer, violinist, businessman, teacher and Catholic priest. -
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL IS BORN 🇩🇪
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel was a German-British Baroque composer well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi..... -
BACH IS BORN 🇩🇪
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific authorship of music across a variety of instruments and forms, including orchestral -
Gluck is born
Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both at the time part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. -
VIVALDI DIES 🇦🇹
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Period: to
Clasicism
The Classicism period lasted primarily through the Renaissance, the 16 to 19 century. The Neoclassical movement involved the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -
BACH DIES 🇩🇪
lived for 65 years -
MOZART IS BORN (AUSTRIA 🇦🇹)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition resulted in more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. -
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL DIES
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Maria Theresia von Paradis is born
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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN IS BORN (GERMANY 🇩🇪)
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music; his works rank among the most performed of the classical music repertoire and span the transition from the Classical period to the Romantic era in classical music. -
Gluck dies
He lived for 73 years -
Period: to
French Revolution 🇫🇷🥐🥖
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, which convulsed the France of the Ancien Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications. -
MOZART DIES
He lived 35 years , died in Vienna -
Schubert is born
Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. -
Mendelssohn is born
He was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music -
Chopin is born
Chopin was a Polish composer and pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation" -
Schumann is born
Schumann was a German composer, pianist, and music critic of the early Romantic era. He composed in all the main musical genres of the time, writing for solo piano, voice and piano, chamber groups, orchestra, choir and the opera. His works typify the spirit of the Romantic era in German music. -
Clara Schumann is born
Clara Schumann was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. She was one of the great European concert artists of the nineteenth century. Regarded as one of the most distinguished pianists of the Romantic era, she exerted her influence on a 61-year concert career, and changed the format and repertoire of the piano recital from exhibitions from virtuosity to serious works programs. She also composed solo piano pieces, a piano concerto, chamber music, choral pieces, and songs. -
Period: to
Romanticism
Romanticism is a literary movement spanning roughly 1820 and 1900. The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy -
Maria Theresia von Paradis dies
She lived for 64 years -
BEETHOVEN DIES 🇦🇹
He lived for 56 years -
Schubert dies
Lived for 31 years -
Tchaikovsky is born
Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer during the Romantic period. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally. Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire, including the ballets Swan Lake and The Nutcracker -
Mendelssohn dies
Lived for 38 years -
Chopin dies
He lived for 39 years -
Manuel de falla is born
Manuel de Falla was a Spanish composer of musical nationalism, one of the most important of the first half of the 20th century, along with Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Joaquín Turina and Joaquín Rodrigo, and one of the most important Spanish composers of all time. -
Stravinsky is born
Stravinsky was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship and American citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music -
Tchaikovsky dies
Lived 53 years -
Clara Schumann dies
She lived for 79 years -
Pierre Henry is born
Pierre Henry was a French composer known for his significant contributions to musique concrète. -
Period: to
Second world war
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries, including all of the great powers, forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers, which included Germany, Italy, and Japan, and the Allies, which included France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China. -
discovery of America 🇪🇺
Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas in 1492. He sailed westward from Spain in hopes of finding a new sea route to South and Southeast Asia. On October 12, 1492, Columbus officially set foot in the Americas, and claimed the land for Spain. The discovery of America is an event as a result of which for the inhabitants of the Old World (Europe) a new part of the world became known – America, consisting of two continents. -
Manuel de falla dies
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MICHAEL JACKSON IS BORN (🇺🇸)
I grew up listening to his music , literally. -
Stravinsky dies
He lived for 88 years -
OLLY ALEXANDER IS BORN 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Omg love his music 😘 -
FAIRYTALE ✨
I'm in loooooove with a fairytaaaale
Even though it huuuuurts ✨✨✨ -
MICHAEL JACKSON DIES :V
the world wakes up with horrible news 🫡 forever in our hearts -
I'M BORN 🗿°-° Zaragoza , Spain 🇪🇸
Mother - 1996 🇨🇱
Father - 1994 🇷🇴 -
Pierre Henry dies
Lived for 89 years -
TOY :3
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FINLAND GETS ROBBED AT EUROVISION 🇫🇮
Cha cha cha :( 🇫🇮 people's champion -
NETHERLANDS IS DISQUALIFIED FROM EUROVISION :( 🇳🇱
:( I really wanted to see 🇳🇱 at the gf grand final -
CROATIA ACHIEVES ITS HIGHEST PLACE IN EUROVISION 🇭🇷
🐱meaw cat pls meaw back -
0-4
Ser del Barça és
El millor que hi ha -
MY TEACHER IS GOING TO BE SO NICE THAT HE IS GOING TO PASS ME MUSIC 🎵🎶🎼🎹
He is going to approve me music :) 🎵🎶🎼🎹 -
OLLY ALEXANDER IS GOING TO RELEASE HIS "POLARI" ALBUM
I can't waaaaaait -
Period: to
Basel 2025 omg
my favourites are norway , croatia and malta