Classical Music Timeline - Stef
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Updated: 9 Oct 2017
A timeline of the events happening throughout the different periods of Classical music (Baroque, Classic, Romantic and 20th Century).
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Created byStef Papadokonstantaki
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Francisco Goya completes 'Yard with Lunatics'August Wilhelm von
Schlegel's lecture
spread Romantic ideas.J.M.W Turner completes 'Hannibal Crossing the Apls'The Grimm brothers publish their first collection of fairy tales.Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein anonymously.John Keats publishes his third volume of poetry.Percy Bysshe Shelley
publishes Prometheus
Unbound.Beethoven completes
his 9th Symphony.Beethoven dies.Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Raven and Other Poems.Frédéric Chopin completes his last polonaise.Emily Brontë publishes Wuthering Heights.La traviata is first performed in Venice.First Railway OpenedChopin composes Nocturne Op. 9Queen Victoria ascends to the throne.Oliver Twist publishedSecond Industrial RevolutionClarinet with keys inventedWagner composes Ride of the ValkyriesDarwin published the Origin of the SpeciesAbraham Lincoln assassinatedSlavery abolishedAlice In Wonderland publishedRoyal Albert Hall openedBizet composes CarmenThomas Edison invented the lightbulbStatue of Liberty builtEiffel Tower builtLondon underground first electric systemTchaikovsky composed The NutcrackerFrench Horn inventedFirst refrigerator inventedBritish Empire in India establishedJames Watt invented the Steam TrainFirst Industrial RevolutionSlavery made illegal in BritainAmerican revolutionary warAmerican Declaration of IndependenceMozart composes Eine Keine Nacht MusikFirst copy of the London Times is publishedGeorge Washington elected President of United StatesFrench RevolutionEdward Jenner invents vaccination by curing smallpoxRosetta Stone discovered in EgyptBeethoven composes 5th SymphonyBattle of Trafalgar —Nelson defeats NapoleonBeethoven composes Fur EliseJane Austen publishes Pride and PrejudiceEnglish East India Company establishedQueen Elizabeth I diesFirst Newspaper inventedGuy Fawkes and the Gun Powder PlotGalileo proves the planets go around the sunShakespeare diesTaj Mahal is builtStart of the Slave TradeGreat Fire of LondonNewton publishes gravitational theoryBuckingham Palace completedFirst commercial steam
pump used in BritainUnited Kingdom of Great Britain establishedHandel composes the Water
Music for King George’s coronationStradivari’s “Golden Period” making his famous violinsModern Piano inventedVivaldi composes the Four SeasonsBach composes Toccata and Fugue in D MinorRule Britania! Written
by James ThomsonHandel composes
the MessiahQueen Victoria diesElgar composes Land of Hope and GloryTitanic sinksScott of the AntarcticWorld War 1 beginsAmelia Earhart flies solo across the AtlanticWorld War II beginsElvis’ first UK no.1—All Shook UpMartin Luther King Jr – I Have a DreamBeatles first no.1Apollo 11 moon landingsKool Herc invents turntable mixing & Hip HopJohn Lennon shot in New YorkRoland 808 drum machine inventedMargaret Thatcher becomes first female PMWorld Wide Web invented by Tim Berners-Lee'Smells Like Teen Spirit' releasedNelson Mandela becomes president of South AfricaSecond Iraq WarFirst Apple iMacWar (America)
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