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Natasha Culpepper
Timeline Project 10/10/17
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Natasha Culpepper
⟶ Updated 11 Oct 2017 ⟶
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Events
Pythagoras determines musical intervals
Aristotle lays foundations of music theory
Aristoxenus defines musical modes
Julies Caesar ascends to thrones; start of the Roman Empire
Jesus of Nazareth born
Fall of the Roman Empire
Birth of the Renaissance in Florence, Italy
Dufay born
Gutenberg invents the printing press; Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Josquin des Prez born
First printed music
Dufay dies
Henry VII defeats Richard III, ending the War of the Roses
Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Last Supper"
Columbus discovers the New World; Spain pushes Moors out of Europe and expels the Jews
First Caesarian section performed
Josquin des Prez publishes "First Bank of Masses"
Leonardo da Vinci paints "The Mona Lisa"
Europe launches Afican slave trade with the New World
Homer writes "The Iliad and The Odyssey"
Five-and seven tone scales appear in Babylonia
Hittites use guitars, lyres, trumpets, and tambourines
Earliest documented written music
First lyres and clarinets
End of prehistory; ancient era begins; first stringed harps and lutes
First known bone flute
Humans migrate from Africa
First use of stone tools
Michelangelo completes painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Josquin des Prez composes Missa Pange Lingua
Copernicus develops heliocentric theory
Martin Luther leads the Protestant Reformation
Magellan launches first round-the-world voyage
Josquin des Prez dies
Palestrina born
Secular tunes introduced into the Mass
Palestrina composes "Missa Papae Marcelli"
Monteverdi born
Shakespeare writes "Richard II and Romeo and Juliet"
NIcholas Yonge publishes Musica Transalpina, introduces the madrigal to England
Palestrina dies
Mass evolves into an unaccompanied contrapuntal style
Fall of the Roman Empire; beginning of the Middle Ages
Pope Gregory I standardizes the Catholic Mass
Beowulf written
Charlemagne begins rule in Europe
First use of polyphony
Rise of the troubadours in southern France
D'Arezzo invents music notation
First agriculture revolution begins
William the Conqueror invades England
First Crusade begins
Crusaders capture Jerusalem
Beginnings of secular music
Richard the Lionhearted assumes English crown
Cathar Crusade; troubadours flee southern France
Thomas Aquinas teaches at the University of Paris
Robin Hood dies (according to legend) at Kirklees Priory
Franco of Cologne invents modern rhythmic notation
Edward 1 establishes English Parliament
Machaut born
Rise of ars nova
Legends about King Gilgamesh appear on clay tablets
The epic of "Gilgamesh" begins to take shape
Egyptian "Book of the Dead"
The epic of Gilgamesh written down
Mesopotamia: Sumerian cuneiform writing on clay tablets. Egypt: Writing in hieroglyphic script
Gilgamesh is king in Uruk
Hebrews migration from Mesopotamia begins
Hammurabi's Code of Law written in Babylon
The Leiden Hymn written down
The Torah text assembled: Psalms
Moses leads the Jews in Exodus from Egypt to Palestine
Start of Hundred Years' War between France and England
The Black Death begins to plague Europe
Lute playing becomes popular across Europe
Machaut writes "Le Messe de Nostre Dame"
Machaut dies
First Mass setting with all movements related to each other
Palestrina named director of music at St. Peter's
First modern violin
Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables
Herodotus, History
Jerusalem captured by Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar; many Jews taken to exile in Babylon
The Persian shah Cyrus the Great conquers Babylon and allows the Jews to return to Israel. He founds the Iranian empire, which later envelops most of the Middle East and Central Asia
Cambyses, king of Persia, conquers Egypt
Rome conquers Egypt
Greek alphabetic scripts
Sappho writing her lyrics on the island of Lesbos
Mycenareans from mainland Greece occupy Crete
Troy destroyed by the Achaeans
Olympic Games founded in Greece
Soon reforms laws at Athens, which becomes the world's first democracy (508), ad defeats a Persian invasion at Marathon (490)
Trial and execution of Socrates
Plato founds the Academy
Aeschylus's dramatic trilogy, "The Oresteia", produced in Athens
Sophocles, "Antigone"
Euripides, "Madea"
Sophocles, "Oedipus the King"
Aristophanes, "Lysistrata"
Written Language Developed
Periods
Love lyrics of the New Kingdom composed
Old Kingdom: (Egypt) Great Pyramids: Sphinx
Middle Kingdom: (Egypt)
Akhenaten's "Hymm to the Sun" composed
New Kingdom: (Egypt)
King Akhenaten dedicates his capital to Aten, the sun god
David, then Solomon, king in Israel
Alexander the Great conquers Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran; defeats the last Persian army at Sungamela and occupies Babylon and Persopolis
Alexander conquers Central Asia and the Indus Valley, but dies in Babylon(323). His generals divided up the empire. Selecus becomes king of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Iran; Ptolemy, of Egypt
Palestine falls to Antiochus III, king of a land empire stretching east from Asia Minor. Rome defeats Antiochus III in 190. Successful Jewish revolt against Antiochus IV between 173 and 167
Herod is king of Judaea
Minoan civilization flourishes on Crete
Greece turns back a massive Persian invasion by sea at Salamis and by land at Plataea
Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta; Athens surrenders (404)
Plato, author of "The Apology of Socrates and Phaedo"
Aristotle, author of "Poetics"
Iranian Plateau
Stonehenge
Colosseum
Pyramids of Mycerinus, Chefren, and Cheops at Giza
Political decline- Assyrian Conquest
New Kingdom Temple of Abu Simbel
Euripides
Sophocles
Pythagoras
Plato
Socrates
Great Wall of China
The Silk Road was created and used
