Events
Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint TeresaKing James Bible is completedThe Netherlands expels Spanish armies from their landRemembrant, Self Portrait as Saint PaulLouis XIV founds the Academy of DanceDIego Velazquez, The Maids of HonorShah Jahan commissions the Taj MahalSymphony orchestra is createdFrancis Bacon, Novum OrganumDenis DiderotMary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of WomanAdam Smith, Wealth of NationsBerlin Wall fallsDaniel Defoe, Robinson CrusoeOlaudah Equiano, TravelsVoltaire, CandideScientific Revolution beginsKing of Naples sponsors excavation of HerculaneumJoseph Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G MajorHector Berlioz, Symphonie FantastiqueFranz Schubert creates the Romantic LeidCharles Darwin, On the Origins of SpeciesEdmund Cartwright creates the water-driven power loomShelley, The Necessity of AtheismGoethe, FaustJane Austen, Pride and PrejudiceAmerican Civil War beginsWalt WhitmanJoseph Turner, Slave ShipGeorge Catlin, The White CloudOrganized abolitionism begins in EnglandGustave Eiffel, Eiffel TowerAuguste Rodin, The ThinkerCourbet, Burial at OrnansEdison creates efficient incandescent light bulbClaude Debussy, Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"Nuku Hiva islanders with various tattoosEdgar Degas, Two Dancers on a StageEdouard Manet, Déjeuner sur l'herbeMarx and Engels, Communist ManifestoBirth of photographyRontgen discovers x-raysBritish rule begins in IndiaSpanish Civil War endsRussian RevolutionPeople's Republic of China is establishedMunch, The ScreamFrida Kahlo, The Broken ColumnFrank Wright, The Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumEdward Ellington, Black, Brown, and BeigeZora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching GodH. G. Wells, The War of the WorldsPicasso, Les Demoiselles d'AvignonKafka, "The Metamorphosis"Pound, PersonaeStravinsky, The Rite of SpringChicago, The Dinner PartyAdams, Nixon in ChinaU.S. Supreme Court bans school segregationBetty Friedan, The Feminine MystiqueOscar Hijuelos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love of LatinoThe Thirteenth Amendment is passedAkira Kurosawa, The Seven Samurai9/11 Terrorist attack in New YorkFirst moon landingSteven Spielberg, Jurassic ParkWikipedia is launchedAmerica legalizes same-sex marriageWarhol, Campell's Coup CansWalker, The Color PurpleLigeti, AtmospheresVIvaldi, Four SeasonsMoliere, The MisanthropeIgnatius Loyola, Spiritual ExercisesGiovanni di Palestrina masters counterpointsEl Greco, The Agony in the GardenPeriods
BaroqueEnlightenmentRomanticismIndustrial AgeModern AgeDigital AgeHannah HochGiovanni di PalestrinaMarcel DuchampJean-Paul SatreJackson PollockMohandas Gandhi
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