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27 |
Augustus Emperor |
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54 |
Romans in Britain
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60 |
Epistles and gospels—primitive service |
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100 |
100 |
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150 |
Justin Martyr—communion formalised |
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200 |
Hippolytus—further formalisation of canon |
200 |
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500 |
Eastern influence—cantus antiphonarius, monasteries, hymns |
300 |
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513 |
Edict of Milan—Christianity the official religion of the Empire |
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400 |
Ambrose of Milan—music collected, metrical hymns popularised |
400 |
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407 |
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449 |
English invasion |
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500 |
500 |
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560 |
Ethelbert, king of Britain |
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597 |
Augustine brought music to England |
570 |
(Mahomet born) |
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600 |
Gregory—Schola Cantorum, liturgy |
600 |
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and music codified |
627 |
Edwin, king of Nortliumbna, |
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a Christian |
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700 |
700 |
Christianity everywhere in Britain |
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755 |
Venerable Bede
died. |
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793 |
Northmen's invasion |
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800 |
Organs at Aachen |
800 |
Charlemagne Emperor |
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832 |
Notker—proses and sequences |
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871 |
Alfred, king of Wessex (till 900) |
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900 |
900 |
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911 |
Northmen to Normandy |
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950 |
First experiments in organum |
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994 |
Danish invasion |
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1000 |
Beginnings of stave notation |
1000 |
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1030 |
Wipo—Victimae Paschali, leading to mystery plays |
1003 |
Danish invasion |
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1016 |
Canute |
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1042 |
Edward the Confessor |
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1050 |
Great Schism |
1066 |
Norman invasion |
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1095 |
First Crusade |
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1100 |
1100 |
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1150 |
Adam de S. Victor—metrical sequence |
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1170 |
Thomas a Becket |
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1200 |
Faux-bourdon, conductus |
1200 |
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1215 |
'Sumer is i-cumen in' |
1215 |
Magna Carta |
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1300 |
Musica Ficta, development of modern notation |
1500 |
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1400 |
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1400 |
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1415 |
Agincourt |
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1450 |
Dunstable |
1455 |
Wars of Roses |
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1485 |
Bosworth—the Tudors |
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1500 |
Organs with keyboards |
1500 |
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