~ca. 3500300 B.C.E. Rise of Sumerian cities
~ca. 1300 Cuneiform writing established ~ca. 2500 Royal tombs at Ur built ~ca. 2300 Enheduanna composes her hymns ~ca. 1800 Babylonian writings about music ~ca. 14001250 Oldest nearly complete piece
~1000973 B.C.E. Reign of King David in Israel ~ca. 800 Rise of Greek citystates
~ca. 800 Homer, Illiad and Odyssey ~753 Rome founded
~587538 Hebrew captivity in Babylon ~ca. 500 Pythagoras Dies ~ca. 500 Roman Republic begins ~485 Aeschylus, Agamemnon ~408 Euripides, Orestes
~ca. 380 Plato, Republic ~ca. 330 Aristotle, Politics ~ca. 330 Aristoxenus, Harmonic Elements ~146 Greece becomes province of Rome ~128127 Second Delphic Hymn to Apollo composed ~2919 Virgil, Aeneid ~27 B.C.E. Rome becomes empire under Augustus st
~1
Century C.E Epitaph of Seikilos
~63 B.C.E. Romans conquer Jerusalem
~ca. 33 C.E. Crucifixion of Jesus ~70 Romans destroy the Temple of Jerusalem ~98117 Roman Empire reaches its peak ~ca. 127148 Ptolemy, Harmonics
~135 Romans destroy Jerusalem and expel the Jews
nd
~2
Century Cleonides, Harmonic Introduction th
~4
Century Aristides Quintilianus, On Music
~313 Emperor Constantine issues Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity ~392 Christianity becomes the Official Roman religion ~395 Separation of Eastern and Western Roman empires th
~Early 5 Century Martianus Capella, the Marriage of Mercury and Philology
~476 End of Western Roman Empire ~ca. 500510 Boethius, De institutione musica ~ca. 530 Rule of St. Benedict, guide for monasteries in the West ~590604 Pope Gregory 1 (The Great) th
~Late 7 Century Schola Cantorum established ~751768 Reign of Pepin the Short, King of the
Franks
~768814 Reign of Charlemagne ~800 Charlemagne crowned Emperor by Pope ~843 Death of Louis the Pious, Charlemagne’s empire divided ~ca. 850900 Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis ~ca. 99296 Wulfstan of Winchester, polyphony in
Winchester Troper th
~Late 10 Century Quem queritis in presepe ~10001300 European population triples ~1014 Last major item (Credo) added to Mass ~ca. 102050 Wipo, Victimae paschali laudes ~102528 Guido de Arzzo, Micrologus
~ca. 1050 Windmills and waterpowered mills provide mechanical power th ~11 century Romanesque churches and monasteries ~1054 Split between Roman and Byzanitne churches ~1066 Battle of Hastings: England falls to Normans ~109599 First Crusade
~ca. 1100 Song of Roland
~1146 Adam of St. Victor Dies ~ca. 1151 Hildegard of Bingen, Ordo virtutum
th
~12
Century Cult of Virgin Mary th
~12
Century Universities of Bologna, Paris and
Oxford established ~ca. 1100 ad organum faciendum ~1109 Death of St. Anselm, founder of
Scholasticism
~1150’s ca. 1201 Leoninus at Cathedral of Paris ~ca. 1160 Construction of Notre Dame of Paris
Begins
~ca. 1200 Perotinus at Notre Dame of Paris
~ca. 1200 Comtess de Dia, A Chantos
th
~Early 13 Century Early Motets
~1208 Pope Innocent III declares crusade against
Albigensians
~1209 St. Francis of Assisi founds Franciscan order ~ca. 1215 St. Claire founds Order of Poor Clares
~1215 Magna Carta signed by King John of
England
~1216 St. Dominic founds Dominican Order
~12251274 St. Thomas Aquinas ~ca. 1228 Walther von der Vogelweide,
Palästinalied
~1270 Seventh Crusade ~ca. 127090 Cantigas de Santa Maria ~ca. 1284 Adam de la Halle, Jeu de Robin et de
Marion
~ca. 1250 Sumer is icumen in ~ca. 1260 Johannes de Garlandia (?), De mensurabili musica
