Tutmosis I (Dynasty 18) builds the Valley of the Kings
Architecture
-1504
Parthenon completed in 432 BC
Architecture
-432
Completion of Erechtheum (Temple on the north side of the Acropolis)
Architecture
-408
Hagia Sophia opens in Constantinople--seat of Orthodox Christianity for 900 years
Architecture
537
Revolution in poetry spreads from Iberian Peninsula to all of Europe
Arts
1050
Edward the Confessor completes building of Westminster Abbey
Architecture
1060
The great age of cathedral building in Europe begins
Architecture
1078
Iglesia de San Roman built in the aftermath of Christian Reconquest of Toledo
Architecture
1085
Khmer king builds the largest temple on earth, dedicated to Vishnu
Architecture
1127
In Paris, Abbot Suger begins rebuilding St. Denis Basilica in Gothic style
Architecture
1137
Building of Notre Dame de Paris begins
Architecture
1163
Holy relic survives fire and Chartres Cathedral rebuilt in Gothic splendor
Architecture
1194
Foundation stone laid for Cologne Cathedral--not to be completed until 1880
Architecture
1248
"The Book of the Ladder" or "Miraj" in its original Arabic is translated
Arts
1264
"Lamentation" by Giotto
Arts
1306
"Maesta" by Duccio
Arts
1311
Chaucer begins to write The Canterbury Tales.
Arts
1380
"The Expulsion Of Adam and Eve from Eden" by Masaccio
Arts
1428
"Madonna of the Canon van der Paele" by Jan van Eyck
Arts
1434
"Deposition" by Rogier van der Weyden
Arts
1435
Cathedral with Brunelleschi's dome is dedicated in Florence
Architecture
1436
"Resurrection" by Piero della Francesca
Arts
1463
"The Court of Mantua" by Andrea Mantegna
Arts
1474
"Primavera" by Sandro Botticelli
Arts
1482
"Saint Francis in the Desert" by Giovanni Bellini
Arts
1485
"Madonna with Musical Angels" by Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Arts
1490
"The Last Supper" by Leonardo da Vinci
Arts
1498
"Self-Portrait" by Albrecht Durer
Arts
1500
Michelangelo completes the sculpture of David after three years of work
Arts
1504
Michelangelo is commissioned by Pope Julius II to paint Sistine Chapel ceiling
Arts
1508
"The School of Athens" is completed by Raphael
Arts
1510
"Pastoral Concert" by Titian
Arts
1510
"The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo
Arts
1511
"Crucifixion" by Matthias Grunewald
Arts
1515
"Baldassare Castiglione" by Raphael
Arts
1515
"Assumption of the Virgin" by Titian
Arts
1518
"Jupiter and Io" by Coreggio
Arts
1530
"Charles de Solier, Sieur de Morette" by Holbein
Arts
1535
Michelangelo completes "The Last Judgment" for the Sistine Chapel
Arts
1541
"Hunters in the Snow" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Arts
1565
"The Burial of Count Orgaz" by El Greco
Arts
1586
"The Entombment" by Caravaggio
Arts
1604
Don Quixote, written by Miguel de Cervantes, is published
Arts
1605
Shakespeare's Sonnets published
Arts
1609
"Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene" by Hendrick ter Brugghen
Arts
1625
"The Landing of Marie de' Medici at Marselles" by Peter Paul Rubens
Arts
1625
Shah Jahan I builds Taj Mahal in Agra to commemorate his wife, Mutaz Mahal
Architecture
1631
"Penitient Magdalene" by Georges de La Tour
Arts
1640
Rembrandt finishes "The Night Watch"
Arts
1642
"Eliezer and Rebecca" by Nicolas Poussin
Arts
1648
"Landscape with the Marriage of Isaac and Rebecca" by Claude
Arts
1648
Bernini completes "The Ecstasy of St. Theresa" in Rome
Arts
1652
"Las Meninas" by Diego de Silva Velazquez
Arts
1656
"Self-Portrait" by Rembrandt van Rijn
Arts
1658
"View of Delft" by Johannes Vermeer
Arts
1661
The Regentesses of the Old Men's Home in Haarlem" by Frans Hals
Arts
1664
"The Way You Hear It Is the Way You Sing It" by Jan Steen
Arts
1665
"The Jewish Bride" by Rembrandt van Rijn
Arts
1667
"Paradise Lost" published
Arts
1667
Christopher Wren completes St. Paul's Cathedral
Architecture
1711
"The Embarkation for Cythera" by Antoine Watteau
Arts
1717
Premiere of Handel's "Water Music" on the River Thames
Music
1717
Johann Sebastian Bach creates the Brandenburg Concertos
Music
1721
"Apollo and the Four Continents" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Arts
1753
Goethe writes The Sorrows of Young Werther and creates "Werther Fever"
Arts
1775
"Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan" by Thomas Gainsborough
Arts
1787
"Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David
Arts
1793
William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads
Arts
1798
Ludwig van Beethoven completes his Third Symphony
Arts
1804
Beethoven's Eroica symphony (Symphony No. 3) is performed in Vienna
Music
1805
Beginning in 1811, Jane Austen publishes six major novels
Arts
1811
"The Third of May, 1808" by Goya
Arts
1814
"Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable
Arts
1816
Beethoven composes his ninth and final symphony
Arts
1824
"Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon" by Caspar David Friedrich
Arts
1824
"Liberty Leading the People" by Eugene Delacroix
Arts
1830
Palace of Westminster burns down in 1834, but is rebuilt in 1840-1860
Architecture
1834
Dickens begins publishing the Pickwick Papers
Arts
1836
Alexander Pushkin, founder of romantic Russian literature, dies after a duel
Arts
1837
Alfred, Lord Tennyson publishes "Locksley Hall"
Arts
1837
"The Fighting Temeraire" by J.M.W. Turner
Arts
1839
"A Burial at Ornans" by Gustave Courbet
Arts
1850
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is published
Arts
1851
Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes "House of Seven Gables"
Arts
1851
"Niagara" by Frederic Edwin Church
Arts
1857
George Eliot publishes "Silas Marner"
Arts
1861
Leo Tolstoy publishes first part of "War and Peace"
Arts
1865
Fyodor Dostoevsky publishes "Crime and Punishment"
Arts
1866
"The Magpie" by Claude Monet
Arts
1869
"Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler
Arts
1871
"In a Café" or "L'Absinthe" by Edgar Degas
Arts
1876
Mark Twain publishes "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
Arts
1876
"Paris Street in Rainy Weather" by Gustave Caillebotte
Arts
1877
"Five O'clock Tea" by Mary Cassatt
Arts
1880
"Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Pierre-August Renoir
Arts
1881
"The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by John Singer Sargent
Arts
1882
"A Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by Edouard Manet
Arts
1882
"A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat
Arts
1886
"The Harvest" by Vincent van Gogh
Arts
1888
"The Card Players" by Paul Cezanne
Arts
1892
"Fox Hunt" by Winslow Homer
Arts
1893
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch
Arts
1893
Antonin Dvorak composes "New World Symphony"
Music
1893
Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring causes a riot in Paris
Arts
1913
Claude Monet's Water Lilies
Arts
1916
"The Second Coming" composed by Irish poet W. B. Yeats
Arts
1919
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is published
Arts
1922
James Joyce's Ulysses published
Arts
1922
Disney Studio produces Mickey Mouse in first synchronized sound cartoon
Arts
1928
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World published
Arts
1932
Gone with the Wind, a Hollywood blockbuster movie, is released
Movies
1939
Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" begins in 1948 (not published in French until 1952)
Arts
1948
James Dean, star in East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause & Giant, dies in car crash
Movies
1955
Ravi Shankar begins tour of Europe and America playing Indian classical music
Music
1956
Bob Dylan's debut in New York City leads to contract with Columbia Records
Music
1961
The movie "Lawrence of Arabia" released
Movies
1962
"Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Movies
1964
The Beatles perform live on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States
Music
1964
The movie "Doctor Zhivago" released
Movies
1965
The movie "Hawaii" released
Movies
1966
The movie "The Graduate" released
Movies
1967
The movie "Easy Rider" released
Movies
1969
The movie "Little Big Man" released
Movies
1970
Sesame Street first airs on Public Television Station (PBS)
Education
1970
John Lennon and Yoko Ono release the song "Imagine"
Music
1971
The movie "Slaughterhouse Five" released
Movies
1972
Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes in English "The Gulag Archipelago"
Arts
1974
"Roots" shown on TV as a miniseries
Movies
1977
First episode of George Lucas's "Star Wars" opens in movie theaters
Movies
1977
The movie "Gandhi" released
Movies
1982
Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder release "Ebony and Ivory"
Music
1982
The movie "WarGames" released
Movies
1983
The movie "The Killing Fields" released
Movies
1984
The movie "Amadeus" released
Movies
1984
The movie "Out of Africa" released
Movies
1985
The movie "The Last Emperor" released
Movies
1987
The movie "Good Morning, Vietnam" released
Movies
1987
"Born on the Fourth of July" released
Movies
1989
"Dances with Wolves" released
Movies
1990
"Heaven and Earth" released
Movies
1993
"Schindler's List" released
Movies
1993
"Gettysburg" released
Movies
1993
"Philadelphia" released
Movies
1993
"Stalingrad" released
Movies
1993
"Immortal Beloved" released
Movies
1994
"Apollo 13" released
Movies
1995
"Braveheart" released
Movies
1995
"Evita" released
Movies
1996
"Seven Years in Tibet" released
Movies
1997
"Gladiator" released
Movies
2000
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World" released
Movies
2003
"Alexander" released
Movies
2004
"Troy" released
Movies
2004
"Kingdom of Heaven" released
Movies
2005
"Karol: A Man Who Became Pope" released
Movies
2005
"Rome" released by BBC, HBO and Rai Fiction
Movies
2005
"Into the West" released as miniseries
Movies
2005
"The Tudors" released by Showtime
Movies
2007
Zhang Yimou directs opening & closing ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics
Arts
2008
"Magnificent Century" (Turkish: Muhteşem Yüzyıl) aired as a TV miniseries
Movies
2011
"Viking" (season 1) released
Movies
2013
"The Last Kingdom" aired on TV as a miniseries
Movies
2015
"Snowden" released
Movies
2016
"War & Peace" released
Movies
2016
"War Machine" released
Movies
2017