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Nov 8, 1430
The Renaissance Begins (1430)
This rebirth favors the simplistic virtues of Greek and Roman Classic styles, moves from polyphony to one harmonized melody and sees the increased importance and popularity of secular music. -
Invention Of Clarinet (1683)
The man universally credited for actually inventing, or making, the clarinet was Johann Christoph Denner (1655-1707) with the help of his son, Jacob, of Nuremberg, Germany. J.C. Denner was well-known and well-respected for the high quality woodwind instruments he made. -
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer. -
Joseph Haydn 1732-1809
Joseph Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the piano trio -
CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (1714-1787)
Christoph Willibald Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate (now part of Germany) and raised in Bohemia, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna, where he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years. -
LUIGI BOCCHERINI (1743-1805)
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. -
ANTONIO SALIERI (1750-1825)
Antonio Salieri was an Italian classical composer, conductor, and teacher. He was born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, and spent his adult life and career as a subject of the Habsburg Monarchy. -
MUZIO CLEMENTI (1752-1832)
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi (23 January 1752 – 10 March 1832) was an Italian-born British composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Encouraged to study music by his father, he was sponsored as a young composer by Sir Peter Beckford who took him to England to advance his studies. -
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. Born in Salzburg, he showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. -
Invention Of Spanish Dance "bolero". (1780)
Sebastiano Carezo invented the Spanish dance called "bolero." -
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime -
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Frédéric François Chopin, born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin, was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo piano. -
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. -
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, and Franciscan tertiary. -
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. -
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian opera composer. Verdi was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. -
Harmonica Was Invented (1821)
The harmonica was invented by Friedrich Buschmann. -
French Bassoon Redesigned (1825)
Carl Almenräder redesigned the French bassoon. -
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)
Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. -
Accordion Was Invented (1829)
Charles Wheatstone invented the accordion in 1829. The accordion is played by pressing and expanding the air bellows while the musician presses buttons and keys to force the air across reeds that produce sounds. -
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, often anglicized as Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. -
Invention Of Saxophone (1846)
Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who invented the saxophone in 1846. -
Creation Of First Grand Piano (1856)
Henry Engelhard Steinway created his first grand piano. -
American Civil War Apr 12, 1861 - Apr 9, 1865
The American Civil War, widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War as well as other sectional names, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy. Among the 34 states in January 1861, seven Southern slave states individually declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America. -
Battle of Gettysburg Jul 1, 1863 - Jul 3, 1863
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point. -
Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (April 14, 1865)
United States President Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. -
Carnegie Hall Opened In New York City (1891)
Zankel Hall, which seats 599, is named after Judy and Arthur Zankel. Originally called simply Recital Hall, this was the first auditorium to open to the public in April 1891. Following renovations made in 1896, it was renamed Carnegie Lyceum. -
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music. -
William Walton (1902-1983)
Sir William Turner Walton, OM was an English composer. During a sixty-year career, he wrote music in several classical genres and styles, from film scores to opera. -
Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904-1987)
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Russian composer. He helped to set up the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow and remained one of its leading figures. -
Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett OM CH CBE was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War. -
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Russian pianist and composer of the Soviet period. -
Elliott Carter (1908-2012)
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was an American composer who was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize. -
Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. -
Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
Gian Carlo Menotti was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. -
John Cage (1912-1992)
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist. -
Witold Lutosławski (1913-1994)
Witold Roman Lutosławski was a Polish composer and orchestral conductor. He was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and one of the preeminent Polish musicians during his last three decades. -
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH was an English composer, conductor and pianist. -
World War I Jul 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918
World War I, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was a global war centered in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918. More than 9 million combatants and 7 million civilians died as a result of the war, a casualty rate exacerbated by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and tactical stalemate. -
Spring Offensive Mar 21, 1918 - Jul 18, 1918
The 1918 Spring Offensive or Kaiserschlacht, also known as the Ludendorff Offensive, was a series of German attacks along the Western Front during the First World War, beginning on 21 March 1918, which marked the deepest advances by either side since 1914. -
György Ligeti (1923-2006)
György Sándor Ligeti was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music. -
Pierre Boulez (1925-2016)
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE was a French composer, conductor, writer and organiser of institutions. -
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work and also for his pioneering work in electronic music. -
Electric Organ Was Invented (1928)
Morse Robb of Belleville, Ontario patented the world's first electric organ in 1928. -
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries -
Great Depression Oct 29, 1929
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s. -
The Holocaust Jan 30, 1933 - May 8, 1945
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its collaborators. Some historians use a definition of the Holocaust that includes the additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders, bringing the total to approximately eleven million. -
World War II Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, though related conflicts began earlier. It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. -
Pacific War Dec 7, 1941 - Aug 14, 1945
The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theatre of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and East Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China. -
Air raids on Japan Apr 18, 1942 - Aug 15, 1945
Allied forces conducted many air raids on Japan during World War II, causing extensive destruction to the country's cities and killing between 241,000 and 900,000 people. -
Battle of the Coral Sea May 4, 1942 - May 8, 1942
The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought during 4–8 May 1942, was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. -
Battle of Midway Jun 3, 1942 - Jun 7, 1942
The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II. -
Guadalcanal Campaign Aug 7, 1942 - Feb 9, 1943
The Guadalcanal Campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower, originally applying only to an operation to take the island of Tulagi, by Allied forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II. It was the first major offensive by Allied forces against the Empire of Japan. -
Battle of Anzio Jan 22, 1944 - Jun 5, 1944
The Battle of Anzio was an important battle of the Italian Campaign of the Second World War that began on January 22, 1944, with the Allied amphibious landing known as Operation Shingle against the German forces -
Battle of Guam Jul 21, 1944 - Aug 8, 1944
The Second Battle of Guam was the American capture of the Japanese-held island of Guam, a United States territory during the Pacific campaign of World War II. -
Battle of Okinawa Apr 1, 1945 - Jun 22, 1945
The Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, was a series of battles fought in the Ryukyu Islands, centered on the island of Okinawa, and included the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific War during World War II being the 1 April 1945 invasion of the island of Okinawa itself. -
Cold War 1947 - 1991
The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc and powers in the Eastern Bloc.
Historians have not fully agreed on the dates, but 1947–1991 is common. -
Korean War Jun 25, 1950 - Jul 27, 1953
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. -
Elvis Presley records 'That's All Right Mama' at Sun Studios (1954)
Rock'n'roll's big bang. A 19-year-old truck driver fulfils producer Sam Phillips's dream of finding 'a white guy who sings like a negro'. There were rock'n'roll records before this one, nearly all of them by black artists, but this is the moment when the embryonic form found its perfect embodiment. -
Chuck Berry's 'Maybellene' is released (1955)
'Maybellene' was Berry's first paean to cars and girls, two of the constants of American rock'n'roll. His guitar and songwriting style permeated the music of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen. -
Apollo program 1961 - 1975
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy Nov 22, 1963
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. -
Gemini 4 Jun 3, 1965 - Jun 7, 1965
Gemini 4 was the second manned space flight in NASA's Project Gemini, occurring in June 1965. It was the tenth manned American spaceflight. -
Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Apr 4, 1968
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman and civil rights leader who was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday, April 4, 1968, at the age of 39. -
Death Of Elvis (1977)
The death of elvis presley, but most certainly not the end of his rein as the king of rock 'n' roll. -
Shooting of John Lennon (1980)
Mark Chapman's shooting of John Lennon on the doorstep of the star's New York home shocked the world. That Chapman was a fan, and someone who craved celebrity himself, only added to the chilling unreality of the moment. 'The world is not like the Sixties,' Lennon said in the last interview before his death. -
Gulf War Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991
The Gulf War, codenamed Operation Desert Shield for operations leading to the buildup of troops and defense of Saudi Arabia and Operation Desert Storm -
Vietnam War Nov 1, 1955 - Apr 30, 1975
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. -
Iraq War Mar 20, 2003 - Dec 18, 2011
The Iraq War was a protracted armed conflict that began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States. The invasion regime toppled the government of Saddam Hussein. -
Michael Jackson Dead (2009)
Michael Jackson, also known as the King Of Pop, died at home from heavy sedatuion of anistetics. His doctor was the first to be blamed, as he was keeping him alive. -
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