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First production of Aeschylus' Persians
-472
Arts, Greece
Colossus of Rhodes, a 33 meter high statue, completed
-280
Arts, Greece
Tacitus finishes "Historiae"
113
Arts, Roman Empire
Revolution in poetry spreads from Iberian Peninsula to all of Europe
1050
Arts, Spain
"The Book of the Ladder" or "Miraj" in its original Arabic is translated
1264
Arts, Europe
"Lamentation" by Giotto
1306
Arts, Italy
"Maesta" by Duccio
1311
Arts, Italy
Chaucer begins to write The Canterbury Tales.
1380
Arts, England (<1707)
"The Expulsion Of Adam and Eve from Eden" by Masaccio
1428
Arts, Italy
"Madonna of the Canon van der Paele" by Jan van Eyck
1434
Arts, Belgium
"Deposition" by Rogier van der Weyden
1435
Arts, Belgium
"Resurrection" by Piero della Francesca
1463
Arts, Italy
"The Court of Mantua" by Andrea Mantegna
1474
Arts, Italy
"Primavera" by Sandro Botticelli
1482
Arts, Italy
"Saint Francis in the Desert" by Giovanni Bellini
1485
Arts, Italy
"Madonna with Musical Angels" by Geertgen tot Sint Jans
1490
Arts, Netherlands
"The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
1498
Arts, Italy
"Self-Portrait" by Albrecht Durer
1500
Arts, Germany
Michelangelo completes the sculpture of David after three years of work
1504
Arts, Italy
Michelangelo is commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint Sistine Chapel ceiling
1508
Arts, Italy
"The School of Athens" is completed by Raphael
1510
Arts, Italy
"Pastoral Concert" by Titian
1510
Arts, Italy
"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo
1511
Arts, Italy
"Crucifixion" by Matthias Grunewald
1515
Arts, Germany
"Baldassare Castiglione" by Raphael
1515
Arts, Italy
"Assumption of the Virgin" by Titian
1518
Arts, Italy
"Jupiter and Io" by Coreggio
1530
Arts, Italy
"Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette" by Holbein
1535
Arts, Germany
Michelangelo completes "The Last Judgment" for the Sistine Chapel
1541
Arts, Italy
"Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
1565
Arts, Netherlands
"The Burial of Count Orgaz" by El Greco
1586
Arts, Spain
Globe Theatre opens in London to plays of William Shakespeare
1599
Arts, England (<1707)
"The Entombment" by Caravaggio
1604
Arts, Italy
Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes, is published
1605
Arts, Spain
Shakespeare's Sonnets published
1609
Arts, England (<1707)
"Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene" by Hendrick ter Brugghen
1625
Arts, Netherlands
"The Landing of Marie de' Medici at Marselles" by Peter Paul Rubens
1625
Arts, Belgium
Pope Urban VIII dedicates St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
1626
Arts, Italy
"Penitient Magdalene" by Georges de La Tour
1640
Arts, France
Rembrandt finishes "The Night Watch"
1642
Arts, Netherlands
"Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicolas Poussin
1648
Arts, France
"Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca" by Claude
1648
Arts, France
Bernini completes "The Ecstasy of St. Theresa" in Rome
1652
Arts, Italy
"Las Meninas" by Diego de Silva Velazquez
1656
Arts, Spain
"Self-Portrait" by Rembrandt van Rijn
1658
Arts, Netherlands
"View of Delft" by Johannes Vermeer
1661
Arts, Netherlands
The Regentesses of the Old Men's Home in Haarlem" by Frans Hals
1664
Arts, Netherlands
"The Way You Hear It Is the Way You Sing It" by Jan Steen
1665
Arts, Netherlands
"The Jewish Bride" by Rembrandt van Rijn
1667
Arts, Netherlands
"Paradise Lost" published
1667
Arts, England (<1707)
"The Embarkation for Cythera" by Antoine Watteau
1717
Arts, France
"Apollo and the Four Continents" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1753
Arts, Germany
Goethe writes The Sorrows of Young Werther and creates "Werther Fever"
1775
Arts, Germany
"Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan" by Thomas Gainsborough
1787
Arts, United Kingdom
"Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David
1793
Arts, France
William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
1798
Arts, United Kingdom
Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Third Symphony
1804
Arts, Europe
Beginning in 1811, Jane Austen publishes six major novels
1811
Arts, United Kingdom
"The Third of May, 1808" by Goya
1814
Arts, Spain
"Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable
1816
Arts, United Kingdom
"Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich
1824
Arts, Germany
Beethoven composes his ninth and final symphony
1824
Arts, Europe
"Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix
1830
Arts, France
Dickens begins publishing the Pickwick Papers
1836
Arts, United Kingdom
Alexander Pushkin, founder of romantic Russian literature, dies after a duel
1837
Arts, Russia
Alfred, Lord Tennyson publishes "Locksley Hall"
1837
Arts, United Kingdom
"The Fighting Temeraire" by J.M.W. Turner
1839
Arts, United Kingdom
"A Burial at Ornans" by Gustave Courbet
1850
Arts, France
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published
1851
Arts, United States
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes "House of Seven Gables"
1851
Arts, United States
"Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church
1857
Arts, United States
George Eliot publishes "Silas Marner"
1861
Arts, United Kingdom
Leo Tolstoy publishes first part of "War and Peace"
1865
Arts, Russia
Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes "Crime and Punishment"
1866
Arts, Russia
"The Magpie" by Claude Monet
1869
Arts, France
"Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler
1871
Arts, United Kingdom
"In a Café" or "L'Absinthe" by Edgar Degas
1876
Arts, France
First complete performance of the Ring Cycle--Wagner's cycle of 4 operas
1876
Arts, Germany
Mark Twain publishes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
1876
Arts, United States
"Paris Street in Rainy Weather" by Gustave Caillebotte
1877
Arts, France
"Five O'clock Tea" by Mary Cassatt
1880
Arts, France
"Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Pierre-August Renoir
1881
Arts, France
"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by John Singer Sargent
1882
Arts, United Kingdom
"A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by Edouard Manet
1882
Arts, France
Leo Tolstoy writes "What I Believe"
1884
Arts, Russia
"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat
1886
Arts, France
"The Harvest" by Vincent van Gogh
1888
Arts, Netherlands
"The Card Players" by Paul Cezanne
1892
Arts, France
"Fox Hunt" by Winslow Homer
1893
Arts, United States
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch
1893
Arts, Norway
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring causes a riot in Paris
1913
Arts, Russia
Claude Monet's Water Lilies
1916
Arts, France
"The Second Coming" composed by Irish poet W. B. Yeats
1919
Arts, United Kingdom
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is published
1922
Arts, United Kingdom
James Joyce's Ulysses published
1922
Arts, United Kingdom
Disney Studio produces Mickey Mouse in first synchronized sound cartoon
1928
Arts, Global
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World published
1932
Arts, United Kingdom
Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" begins in 1948 (not published in French until 1952)
1948
Arts, France
Jury decides that Lady Chatterley's Lover is not obscene & no crime in printing it
1960
Arts, United Kingdom
Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes in English "The Gulag Archipelago"
1974
Arts, Russia
Zhang Yimou directs opening & closing ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics
2008
Arts, China