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Collective Timeline
Created by
Shyn Hong
⟶ Updated 24 May 2019 ⟶
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Events
Handel's Opera "Giulio Cesare" was produced.
Columbus reaches the New World
Spanish conquistador Cortez lands in and conquers Mexico
French explorer Cartier explores the St. Lawrence River
English plant colony at Jamestown, Virginia
French found Quebec
Spanish found Santa Fe - as extension of colonization
First African brought to Virginia as labor
Pilgrims migrate to Plymouth
Africans first come to be regarded as slaves in Virginia
Virginia law makes slavery hereditary
Colony of Pennsylvania founded by Quakers, who endorse religious toleration
Virginia outlaws interracial sexual contact
Plains Indians adopt the horse as key to a migratory, bison-hunting way of life
Georgia founded as experimental colony without slaves, with religious tolerance
Georgia legalizes slavery
First Continental Congress founded
Declaration of Independence
Rise of Greek city-states
Homer, Iliad and Odyssey
Rome founded
Roman Republic begins
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Plato, Republic
Greece becomes province of Rome
Babylonian writings about music, seven notes Diatonic scales
Reign of King David in Israel
Rome conquers Jerusalem
Romans destroy Temple of Jerusalem
Romans destroy Jerusalem and expel the Jews
Emperor Constantine issues Edict of Milan legalizing Christianity
Christianity becomes official Roman religion
Separation of Eastern and Western Roman Empires
End of Western Roman Empire
Thomas Jefferson Became President
Music Notation
Windmills and water-powered mills provide mechanical power
Construction of Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris begins
Mechanical clocks and magnetic compass introduced
Ars nova treatise on new rhythmic techniques
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
Michelangelo, David
Luther posts 95 Theses, leading to Protestant Reformation
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestirna was born
Gioseffo Zarlino, Le istitutioni armoniche (the harmonic Foundations)
Gabrieli, Symphoniae sacrae
Shakespear, Hamlet
George Frideric Handel, Messiah
Christoph Willibald Gluck, 'Orfeo ed Euridice'
La Scala opera house opens in Milan
Bach, The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1
John Gay, 'The beggar's Opera'
Louis XIV invades Holy Roman Empire
Daniel Defoe, "Robinson Crusoe" first novel in English
Vivaldi, "The Four Seasons"
Concert Spirituel concert series begins in Paris
J. S. Bach, St. Mathew Passion
Jonathan Swift, "Gulliver's Travels"
First coffeehouse opens in Vienna
Bach appointed Kapellmeister in Cothen
Bach becomes court organist for duke of Weimar
Mozart arrives in Vienna as freelances
Bartolomeo Cristofori invents the pianoforte
ca 1710 Clarinet invented
ca 1730 First symphonies composed
Joseph Haydn hired by Prince Esterhazy
Mozart named concertmaster at Salzburg
Haydn, The Creation
Mozart, Don Giovanni
Beethoven arrives in Vienna
Beethoven, Sonate pathetique
Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor Napoleon I
Franz Liszt begins career as virtuoso pianist
First railway to carry passengers
Schubert, Winterreise
chopin settles in Paris
1840s: Railroads spread across Europe, United States
Felix Mendelssohn founds Leipzig Conservatory
Liszt appointed court music director at Veimar
London firm of Broadwood making 2,000 pianos a year
Stephen Foster, Jeanie with theLight Brown Hair
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Schubert, Unfinished Sympony
Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique
Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Photography developed
Founding of New York Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic
First intercity telegraph between Baltimore and Washington
Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville
Carl Maria Von Weber, Der Freischutz
Rossini, Guillaume Tell
Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Jacques Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld
Charles Gounod, Faust
Georges Bizet, Carmen
Wagner, premiere of complete Ring cycle
Thomas Edison perfects the electric lightbulb
Spanish-American War
Puccini, Madama Butterfly
Puccini, La boheme
Complete edition of J. S. Bach's works begun
Brahms, Fourth Symphony
Victor Hugo, Les miserables
Emile Berliner invents disc-playing phonograph
Eiffel Tower erected
Antonin Dvorak, New World Symphony
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Oil fields discovered in Texas, Persia, and Russia
Wilbur and Orville Wright fly first airplane
Albert Einstein's first paper on relativity
Henry Ford designs the Model T automobile
Russian Revolution brings Bolsheviks to power
Napoleon Marches into Austria
First use of the White House
Invention of the Modern Day Battery
Ultraviolet Radiation Discovered
The Louisiana Purchase
Ohio becomes the 17th state in Union
The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Napoleon Bonaparte Coronation
UK abolished Slave Trade
James Madison Becomes President
Beethoven, Fur Elise"
The Tin Can
Napoleon Retreats from Moscow
Pride and Prejudice
Napoleon Abdicates the French Throne
Battle of Waterloo
Norway Gains Independence
Argentina Gains Independence
Mackintosh or Macintosh
Napoleon dies on Saint Helena
Aluminum Discovered
The first photographs
"Typographer" or Typewriter
Indian Removal Act
Sewing Machine
Underground Railroad
Texas Gains Independence from Mexico
First postage Stamp
Morse's first electronic telegram
The Rubber Band
Oregon splits from England
The Safety Pin
The New York Times Founded
Steinway Pianos
First United States Income Tax
Church of England separates from Rome
Periods
Puritan migration to Massachusetts Bay Colony
Great Awakening spreads a more popular religious through colonies
Seven Years War ousts France from mainland North America
American Revolution achieves national independence from England
Roman Empire reaches its peak
Second Temple built in Jerusalem
Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis
Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus
Hundred years' War between France and England
Renaissance Period
William Shakespeare
Thirty Year's War
Reign of George III in England
French Revolution
Reign of Louis XVI of France
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frideric Handel
Denis Diderot and collaborators publish the "Encyclopedie"
Mozart tours as child prodigy
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Reign of Terror
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Congress of Vienna
War between US and Mexico
Felix Mendelssohn
Fryderyk Chopin
Franz Liszt
Robert Schumann
Clara Schumann
Franz Schubert
Hector Berlioz
Gold Rush in California
Gioachino Rossini
Richard Wagner
Giuseppe Verdi
Piotr Il'yich Tachaikovsky
Wagner composes, Tristan und Isolde
Civil War in the United States
Johannes Brahms
World War I
Claude Debussy
