| Medieval (1000-1400) | Written music invented, The Divine Comedy, Beowulf | Pope Gregory the Great | Dante, Bocaccio, the Medici family of Italy |
| Renaissance (1400-1600) | Discovery of America, Mona Lisa painted | Palestrina & Monteverdi | Christopher Columbus |
| Baroque (1600-1750) | Plymouth Colony founded, England colonizes America | J. S. Bach & G.F. Handel | Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth I of England, King Louis XIV of France |
| Classical (1750-1820) | Revolutionary War, French Revolution. first encyclopedia | F.J. Haydn, W.A. Mozart, & Ludwig van Beethoven | George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Romantic (1815-1900) | American Civil War, the American West, steam engines, photographs | Rossini, Bizet, Wagner | Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, |
| Impressionism (1890-1910) | Standard Oil founded, Silent movies, | Debussy, Ravel | Claude Monet, Teddy Roosevelt, Charlie Chaplin |
| 20th Century (1910-Today) | WWI, WWII, The Korean War, Outer space, sound and color movies | Prokofiev, Gershwin, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland, the Beatles | F.D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton |
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