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Giaochino Antonio Rossini
Early Romantic, 1792 - 1868, Italian -
Franz Peter Schubert
Early Romantic, 1797 - 1826, Viennese -
Louis Berlioz
Early Romantic, 1803- 1869, French -
Haiti declares independence from France
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Robert Schumann
Early Romantic, 1810 - 1856, German -
Frederic Chopin
Early Romantic, 1810 - 1849, French -
Franz Liszt
Early Romantic, 1811 - 1886, Hungarian -
Guiseppe Verdi
Middle Romantic, 1813 - 1901, French -
Wilhelm Wagner
Middle Romantic, 1813 - 1883, German -
Clara Schumann
Middle Romantic, 1819 - 1896, German -
Bedrich Smetana
Middle Romantic, 1824 - 1884, Czech -
Joseph-Nicéphore Niepce takes the world's first photograph
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Death of Francisco Goya
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Johannes Brahms
Middle Romantic, 1833 - 1897, German -
Slavery abolished in British Empire
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First Opium War (to 1842) between Britain and China
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Tchaikovsky
Late Romantic, 1840 - 1893, Russian -
Edvard Grieg
Middle Romantic, 1843 - 1907, Scandanavian -
California gold rush begins
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Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" published
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Puccinni
Late Romantic/ Early 20th Cent, 1858 - 1923, Italian -
Gustav Mahler
Late Romantic, 1860 - 1911, Austrian -
Start of American Civil War
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Achille-Claude Debussy
Early Modernist/ Impressionist, 1862 - 1918, French -
Richard Strauss
Late Romantic, 1864 - 1949, German -
Charles Edward Ives
Early 20th century, 1874 - 1954, American -
The first Kentucky Derby is held
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Joseph-Maurice Ravel
Early Modern/ Impressionist, 1875 - 1937, French -
Arnold Schonberg
Early 20th Cent, 1875 - 1951, American -
Thomas A. Edison invents practical electric light
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Bela Bartok
Early 20th Cent/ 1881 - 1945, Hungarian -
Igor Stravinsky
Early 20th Century, 1882 - 1971, Russian -
Death of Vincent Van Gogh
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New Zealand becomes first country in the world to grant women the right to vote.
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Carl Heinrich Maria Orff
20th Cent/Modern, 1895 - 1982, German -
Jacob Gershwine
20th Cent/ Jazz Classical Crossover, 1898 - 1937, American -
Aaron Copland
Early-Mid 20th Cent, 1900 - 1990, American -
Sigmund Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"
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New York City subway system opens
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John Milton Cage Jr.
Mid-Late 20th Cent, 1912 - 1992, American -
World War I begins
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Leonard Bernstein
Late 20th Cent, 1918 - 1990, American- Ukranian -
Stephen Reich
Late 20th cent/ present, 1936 - , American -
Amelia Earhart lost somewhere in Pacific on round-the-world flight
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Gandhi assassinated in New Delhi by Hindu fanatic
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Castro takes over after Cuban President Batista resigns and flees
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Jennifer Higdon
21st cent, 1962 - , American -
Ronald Reagan takes oath as 40th president
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Dalai Lama wins Nobel Peace Prize