World Events
- 100 Years War (1337-1453)
- Feudalism replaced by urban culture; Humanism is the dominant
philosophy; center of musical activity is England and the Netherlands
- 1415 - English victory at Agincourt; John
Hus burned at the stake
- 1453 - Fall of Constantinople
- 1454 - Invention of movable type
- War of Roses (1455-1485)
- 1476 - Music printing
- Tutor Dynasty in England (1485-1603)
- 1492 - Discovery of America
- Colonization of the Western Hemisphere
- 1500 - Humanistic Movement
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547)
- 1517 - Martin Luther's 95 Theses which helped begin the Protestant
Reformation
- 1520 - Luther excommunicated from the church
- 1527 - organs destroyed in Zurich
- 1534 - Act of Supremacy; Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic
Church and formed the Anglican Church
- Counter Reformation
- Council of Trent (1545-1563)
- Reign of Edward VI (1547-1553)
- 1549 - First Act of Uniformity
- Reign of Mary I (1553-1558) reestablished the Roman Catholic Church
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558-1603) reestablished the Anglican Church
- Huguenot Wars (1562-1598)
- 1598 - Edict of Nantes
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Literary Figures
- Machiavelli
- Shakespeare
- Bacon
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Artists
- Donatello
- da Vinci
- Botticelli
- Raphael
- Michelangelo
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Science
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Explorers
- Christopher Columbus
- Amerigo
- Sir Francis Drake
- Cortez
- Magellan
- Balboa
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Renaissance
Music
Musical
Characteristics | Genre
and Forms | Theorists,
Treatises and Collections
Composers
and Major Works | Hymnology |
