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1600 - First Operas |
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1601 - Triumphs of Oriana
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| 1603 - James I |
1605 - Victoria, Requiem |
| 1606 - Macbeth |
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1609 - Schütz &
Gabrieli at Venice |
| 1611 - King James' Bible |
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| 1618 - start of Thirty Years
War |
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| 1624 - Laughing Cavalier |
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| 1630 - Puritans in Boston |
1634 - Henry Lawes, Comus |
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1642 - Monteverdi, Poppea |
| 1643-1715 - Louis XIV |
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| 1648 - end of Thirty Years
War |
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| 1649 - Charles II beheaded
- Commonwealth |
1653 - Lully at Paris |
| 1660 - Restoration of Charles
II |
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| 1655 - London Plague |
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| 1666 - London Fire |
1666 - Schütz, St.
Matthew Passion |
| 1667 - Milton, Paradise
Lost |
1685 - Playford, Division
Violist |
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1689 - Purcell, Dido
|
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| 1702 - Queen Anne |
1700 - Bach at Lüneberg
|
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1703 - Handel at Hamburg |
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1709 - Cristofori's piano |
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1712 Vivaldi, Concerti |
| 1714 - George I |
1716 - Couperin, Art
de Toucher |
| 1715 - Louis XV |
1722 - Bach, Well-Tempered
Clavier, I, Rameau, Harmonie |
| 1719 - Robinson Crusoe
|
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| 1726 - Gulliver's Travels |
|
| 1734 - Hogarth, Rake's
Progress |
1737 - Scarlatti, Sonatas |
| 1738 - Methodism |
1745 - Gluck in England |
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1749 - Bach, Musical
Offering |
| 1751 - Benjamin Franklin,
electricity |
1751 - Handel, Jephtha |
| 1754 - Chippendale furniture |
1755 - Haydn, String Quartets |
| 1770 - Factory system, Spinning
jenny |
1764 - Mozart in London |
| 1771 - Encyclopaedia
Britannica |
|
| c.l750 -1773 - Diderot (&
d'Alembert) Encyclopédie |
|
| 1776 - American Independence
|
1776 - Burney, History
of Music,
Hawkins, History of Music |
| 1788 - Goethe, Egmont |
1778 - La Scala, Milan |
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1786 - Burns poetry |
| 1789-1794 - French Revolution |
1788 - Mozart, last symphonies
|
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1792 - Beethoven at Vienna |
| 1798 - Coleridge, Wordsworth
Ballads - Malthus, Population |
1795 - Paris Conservatoire |
| 1800 - Ultra-violet rays. |
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