| Year |
World Events |
Significant Musical Events |
Composer Births & Deaths |
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1500 |
Lucrezia Borgia murders second husband, Alfonso of Naples |
Music is printed with movable type by Ottavio de Petrucci |
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1502 |
· Columbus begins his 4th New World journey
· Amerigo Vespucci concludes that South America is NOT India
· Leonardo da Vinci paints "Mona Lisa" |
Josquin des Prez's First Book of Masses is published by Petrucci |
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1505 |
Pope Julius II summons Michelangelo to Rome to paint Sistine Chapel |
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· Thomas Tallis born
· Jakob Obrecht died |
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1510 |
Leonardo da Vinci designs horizontal water wheel, the premise for water turbine engines |
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Louis Bourgeois born |
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1512 |
· Copernicus publishes his conclusion that the earth revolves around the sun, not vice versa
· Michelangelo finishes Sistine Chapel work |
Josquin des Prez's Second Book of Masses is published |
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1516 |
Erasmus publishes the New Testament with Greek and Latin texts |
Josquin des Prez's Third Book of Masses is published |
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1517 |
Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses on the door of a Wittenburg church, beginning the Reformation movement |
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Heinrich Isaak died |
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1521 |
Cortez assumes control of Mexico after destroying Aztec civilization |
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Josquin des Prez died |
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1523 |
Sir Thomas More is elected Speaker of the House of Commons |
Hans Judenkunig publishes first manual of lute playing |
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1525 |
Spain becomes first country to use muskets in combat |
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Giovanni Palestrina born |
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1532 |
Suleiman the Magnificent invades Hungary (unsuccessfully) |
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Orlando di Lasso born |
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1533 |
· Pizarro executes Peruvian Incas
· Henry VIII secretly marries Anne Boleyn |
First madrigals are printed in Rome |
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1536 |
· Anne Boleyn beheaded in Tower of London after which Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour
· Michelangelo paints "Last Judgment" on Sistine Chapel altar wall |
First song book with lute accompaniment printed (Spain) |
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1537 |
Jane Seymour dies giving birth to Prince Edward (later Edward VI) |
· First Catholic hymnal is published
· First conservatories of music are founded in Naples and Venice |
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1543 |
· Portuguese introduce firearms to Japan
· Henry VIII marries wife #6, Catherine Parr |
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William Byrd born |
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1545 |
Council of Trent |
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John Taverner died |
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1547 |
· Henry VIII died and is succeeded by 10 year old son Edward VI
· Nostradamus composes first edition of prediction quatrains |
Louis Bourgeois publishes Psalter |
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1548 |
Six-year-old Mary (Queen of Scots) travels to France to meet her fiance, the Dauphin. |
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Tomas Luis de Victoria died |
