HISTORY - TIME LINE
Antiquity -- Creation - 610
Acceptnce of Cristianity
Fall of Rome
Ptolomy
Pope Gregory I
Early Middle Ages -- 610 - 850
Mohammed
Hucbald
Russia Founded
Normandy Founded
Romanesque -- 850 - 1150
Guido d'Arezzo
First Crusade
Ottoman Empire
Early Gothic -- 1150 - 1300
Leonin
Perotin
Late Gothic -- 1300 - 1450
Hundred Years War
The Great Plague
Guillaume de Machuat
John Dunstable
Johannes Ockegham
Renaissance -- 1450 - 1550
Jacob Obrecht
Josquin Desprez
Michelangelo
Rapheal
Rise of Lutheranism
English Reformation
Palestrina
Late Renaissance -- 1550 - 1600
Zarlino
Elizabeth I of England
Shakesspeare
Phillip II of Spain
Baroque -- 1600 - 1750
Louis XIV
Thirty years War
Edmund Halley
Isaac Newton
John Milton
Vivaldi
Rameau
J.S. Bach
Handel
Peter the Great of Russia
Rococo -- 1725 - 1775
Classical -- 1750 - 1830
Mozart
Haydn
French Revolution
C.P.E. Bach
Beethoven
Romantic -- 1800 - 1910
American Civil War
-Industrial revolution
Mendelssohn
Berlioz
Robert Schumann
Brahms
Verdi
Wagner
Musorgsky
Rimsky-Korsakov
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Strauss
Debussy
Monet
Modern -- 1900 - 1945
Scriabin
Picasso
Schoenberg
Webern
Berg
Ives
-World War I
-World War II
Post-Modern -- 1945 - Present
-Cold War
-Vietnam War
-Electronic Age
Berio
Crumb
Cage
Babbitt
*This list is by no means complete, it merely gives a feel for the most influential events and people and when they were most notable. The names and events are in no specific order of importance.
Schools of Music
St. Martial -- 10th -12th centuries
Notre Dame -- Early 13th Century
Ars Antiqua -- Mid to Late 13th Century
Ars Nova -- 14th Century
Burgundian -- Early 15th Century
Flemish -- Mid 15th to Late 16th Century
Venetian -- Late 16th Century
Roman -- Late 16th to Early 18th Centuries
Bologna -- late 17th Century
Neapolitan -- Late 17th to Mid 18th Century
Mannheim -- Mid 18th Century
Berlin -- Late 18th Century
Viennese -- Late 18th to Early 19th Century
Nationalism -- Late 19th Century
Impressionism -- Early 20th Century
Expressionism -- Early 20th Century
Second Viennese -- Early 20th Century
Neoclassicism -- Early to Mid 20th Century
Experimentalism -- Late 20th Century
Indeterminacy -- Late 20th Century
Jazz--20th Century
-- All dates are general time periods. There is no exact dates or times determining when styles change.