Music History

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  • Period: 400 to 1450

    Middle Ages

  • 800

    Charlemagne becomes Holy Roman Emperor

  • 850

    Gunpowder invented by Chinese Monks

  • Period: 991 to 1033

    Guido D'Arezzo

    Guido D'Arezzo was born and died in Italy. His lifespan is not certain but he was born around 991 and died after 1033.
  • 1054

    East-West Schism

  • 1096

    The First Crusade Begins

  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Hildegard Von Bingen

    Born in Bermersheim von der Höhe, (modern day Germany) and lived until 81 when she died in Bingen.
  • 1100

    Pérotin

    Pérotin worked in Paris. We are unsure of his dates but he flourished in the 12th century.
  • Period: 1140 to 1201

    Léonin

    Léonin was born in Paris in an estimated year of 1135-1150, he died in Paris in an assumed 1201. His timeline is not as certain as other composers.
  • 1206

    Mongols unite under new emperor Genghis Khan

  • Period: 1300 to 1377

    Guillaume de Machaut

    Machart was born in Reims, Northeast France and died in Reims (we think) at the estimated age of 77.
  • 1320

    Dante writes "Inferno"

  • 1347

    Black Death

    Death began ravaging Europe
  • 1440

    Invention of the Printing Press

    in Europe
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1450 to 1521

    Josquin Desprez

    Josquin was born in either Picardy, Northern France or Belgium and lived to the age of 71. He died in Conde-sur-Escaut, France.
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus sails to the Americas

  • 1503

    Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

  • Period: 1506 to 1568

    Jaques Arcadelt

    Ardent was born in what is probably France or Belgium at an unknown specific year, he died in France at the age of 62.
  • 1512

    Michelangelo finishes working on the Sistine Chapel

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther Posts the 95 Theses

  • Period: 1525 to

    Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina

    Palestrina was born in Palestrina Italy (near Rome) and died at the age of 69 in Rome.
  • Period: 1567 to

    Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi

    Monteverdi was born in Cremona, Italy and died in Venice, Italy at the age of 76.

  • English Defeat the Spanish Armada

  • Period: to

    Baroque

  • Establishment of Dutch East India Trading Company

  • Period: to

    Chiara Margarita Cozzolani

    Cozzolani was born in Milan, Italy and lived there all her life. She died in her mid seventies.

  • Defenestration of Prague

    Bohemian resistance to Habsburg authority. Began the 30 years war
  • Period: to

    Henry Purcell

    Purcell was born in London, England and died there at the age of 35.
  • Period: to

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

    Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy and died in Vienna Austria at the age of 65.
  • Period: to

    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bach was born in Eisenach, Central Germany and died at the age of 65 in Leipzig, Eastern Central Germany
  • Period: to

    Georg Friedrich Händel

    Händel was born in Halle, (central East of) Germany and died at the age of 74 in London, England.
  • Period: to

    Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti

    Scarlatti was born in Naples, Italy and died in Madrid Spain at the age of 71.

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • Period: to

    Franz Joseph Haydn

    Born in Rohrau, Eastern Austria and died in Vienna at the age of 77.

  • Industrial Revolution begins in England

  • Period: to

    Classical

  • Period: to

    Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

    Mozart was born in Salzburg Austria and died at the age of 35 in Vienna.
  • Period: to

    Ludwig Van Beethoven

    Born in (modern day) central west Germany and died in Vienna, Austria at the age of 56.

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Storming of the Bastille

    Event in the French Revolution

  • Battle of Waterloo

  • Period: to

    Romantic