1440s
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Humanism in Italy
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1453
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- Turks captured Constantinople
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1454
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Gutenberg, Movable type printing
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1455-1485
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Wars of the Roses
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1430-1460
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Dunstable, Netherlanders 1: Dufay, Binchois
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1440
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Meistersingern in Germany
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1450
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White notation
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1450-1505
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Netherlanders 2: Ockeghem, Obrecht, Josquin, Isaac
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1470s
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first music printing (plainsong)
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1498
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Petrucci, Venice, preparing to print polyphony
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