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... Hector Berlioz Time Line |
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Berlioz |
Music |
France |
Technology |
 1803 |
Berlioz born at Cote St Andre on
11th December. |
Prix de Rome founded.
Adolphe Adam born. |
France occupies Hanover |
Trevithick builds the first steam locomotive.
Dalton's Atomic Theory.
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1804
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Napolean crowned Emperor of France.
Napoleon's Civil Code.
Alliance of France & Spain. Spain declares war on Britain. |
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1805
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Mozart's Don Giovanni performed
in Paris
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Battle of Austerlitz. Battle of Trafalgar.
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Jacquard invents punched card weaving
loom.
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1806
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Birth
of sister Nanci
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France occupies Berlin. Napoleon prohibits
trade with Britain.
La Madelaine built, associating Napoleon with classical Rome. France changes back to Gregorian calendar from Republican calendar |
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1807
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Birth
of sister Louise
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Arc de Triomphe under construction.
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London became the first city in the world to be lit by gas light. | |
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1808
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France invades Spain
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1809
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Food canning process developed.
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Chopin born.
Schumann born. |
Napoleon divorces Josephine to marry
Marie-Louise of Austria.
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First food tin can patented.
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 1811 |
Liszt born
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Luddites destroy mechanical looms in
Britain.
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1812 |
Retreat from Moscow
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Grimms fairy Tales published.
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1813
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Wagner, Alkan,
Verdi born
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Battle of Leipzig.
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1814
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Birth of sister Adele. Birth of Marie
Recio (nee Martin)
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Adolphe Sax born |
Allied invasion of France. Napoleon's
first exile to Elba
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1815
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Valved brass instruments introduced by
Stoelzel.
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Battle of Waterloo.
Napoleon exiled to St Helena. Napoleon Bonaparte had conscripted 2.5m men during his campaigns, of whom only 1.5m men returned home safely. |
Sir Humphrey Davy invents the miners safety lamp. | |
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1816
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Cherubini appointed Professor of Composition
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Kaleidoscope invented.
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1817
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Halary introduces ophicleide as bass
instrument for brass replacing the serpent.
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1818
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Gounod
born.
Le Seuer starts to teach composition at the Conservatoire. Grube composes "Stille Nacht". |
Frankenstein published.
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1819
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Alkan enters conservatoire,
aged 6. Offenbach born
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Stethoscope invented by Renee Laennec
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Birth
of brother Prospero
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Venus de Milo discovered |
Modern form of Trousers for men introduced.
Charles Babbage invents mechanical computer.
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1821 |
Berlioz
enroles at medical School in Paris
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Gluck's Iphegenie
en Tauride in Paris.
Weber's Der Freischitz in Berlin. Harmonica invented. |
Death of Napoleon
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1822 |
Cesar
Franck born. Cherubini appointed Director of the Conservatoire.
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Charbonnerie insurrection.
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Rosetta Stone deciphered. Goya's painting
The witches Sabbath |
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1823
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Berlioz composes
The Crossing of the Red Sea.First
article published.
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Lalo
bornArpeggione
invented by Stauffer
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France intervenes in Spanish War.
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First game of Rugby!
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1824
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Berlioz
receives instruction in Composition from Leseur.
Messe Solenelle rehearsals |
Der Freischutz performed in Paris
Beethoven's Ninth Rossini becomes Director of the Theatre Italien |
Death of Louis XVIII
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Braille system devised.
Portland cement invented. |
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1825
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1st
performance of Messe Solenelle
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Almenrader & Heckel improve the design
of the Bassoon.
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Pepys Diariespublished by John Smith.
Stockton & Darlington Railway opened. |
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1826
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Enrols
at Conservatoire:
Leseur - Composition Reicha - Counterpoint |
Death of Weber
Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Rossini's Siege of Corinth |
Invention of photographic Camera by Niepce
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1827
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Berlioz
sees Harriet Smithson as Ophelia in Garrick version of Hamlet
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Death of Beethoven
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Striking matches invented.
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1828
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Berlioz hears Beethoven's 3rd &
5th Symphonies.
Premieres of: Les Franc Juges; Waverley |
Inaugral Concert of the Societe des
Concerts du Conservatoire.
Schubert dies. |
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1829
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Composes
Neuf Melodies
Writes first article for Le Correspondant |
Glass feeding bottles for babies introduced.
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Premiere
of Symphony Fantastique
falls in love with Camille Moke Wins Prix de Rome |
Can-can becomes popular in Paris.
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Louis Philippe, duc d'Orleans becomes
King of France
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1831 |
At
Rome, composes:
Le Roi Lear; Rob Roy McGregor; Lelio. Berlioz returns to Paris, but stops at Nice. |
Premiere of Norma
at La Scala.
Premiere of Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable |
Camille Moke marries Camille Pleyel
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Research ship Beagle
sets sail.
Faraday works on electromagnetic induction. |
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1832 |
Harriet
Smithson attends premiere of Lelio
and hears the Symphonie Fantastique
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Premiere of Chopin's Piano
Concerto No 1, at
his first Paris Concert.
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Outbreak of Cholera in Europe.
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1833
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Harriet
Smithson breaks leg on alighting from a carriage. Berlioz
& Harriet Smithson marry.
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Brahms born.
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First telegraph invented by Gauss &
Weber.
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1834
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Birth
of Berlioz's son Louis. Paganini commissions
Harold in Italy |
Sax improves Bass Clarinet
Boildieu dies. |
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1835
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Berlioz receives last income from the
Prix de Rome.
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Mendelssohn St Paul
Saint-saens born. Bellini dies. Franck moves to Paris. Rossini introduces his "Soirees Musicales" |
Camille Moke (Pleyel) in scandal with
one of her lovers, husband granted a judicial separation.
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Fox Talbot invents negative system of
photography.
Hans Christian Anderson publishes his Fairy Tales. |
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1836
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Benvenuto
Cellini
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Delibes born.
La Sylphide Les Huguenots |
Arc de Triomphe built
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1837
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Grande messe
des morts
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Queen Victoria's Coronation.
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1838
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Premiere
of
Benvenuto Cellini |
Bizet
born.
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Steamship Great
Western crosses the Atlantic.
Morse code devised. |
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1839
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Berlioz
appointed Assciate Librarian at the Conservatoire.
Death of Berlioz's brother Prospero Berlioz awarded Legion d'Honneur Premiere of Romeo & Juliette |
Premiere of
Schubert's C major Symphony. |
Darwin publishes his work on the Beagle.
Self powered bicycle invented. |
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Premiere
of
Symphony funebre et Triomphale |
Death of Paganini.
Birth of Tchaikovsky. Improvements made to Clarinet. |
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1841 |
Les
Nuits d'Ete
Berlioz meets Marie Recio |
First Caville-Coll organ installed in
St Denis.
Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone. Chabrier born. Giselle |
Napolean's remains transferred to Les
Invalides
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Carbon
zinc battery invented. Whitworth Standard for screw threads introduced. |
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1842 |
Berlioz
gives first foreign concert in Brussels
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Rossini's Stabat
Mater
Wagner's Rienzi |
Death of Louis Philipe
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First phosphate fertilisers manufactured.
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1843
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Carnaval
Romain
Grande Traite d'Instrumentation published |
Grieg born.
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Vulcanised rubber invented by Goodyear.
SS Great Britain launched. First Christmas cards printed for Henry Cole. |
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1844
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Berlioz returns to Nice for a rest cure, staying in an old tower. |
Telegraph improved by Samuel Morse
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1845
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Le
Corsair premiered as La
Tour de Nice
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Massenet, Faure
born.
Sarah Glover introduces tonic solfa system. |
Irish potato famine.
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1846
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Saxophone patented |
Sewing machine invented.
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1847
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Berlioz
gives concerts in Russia, Germany and London
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Saxophone school set up at Military Band School in Paris. |
James Young discovers the anaesthetic
properties of Chloroform
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1848
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Berlioz's
father dies.
Harriet Smithson suffers a stroke |
Paris Uprising. Louis-Phillipe abdicates.
Universal male suffrage introduced. Louis-Napoleon elected President.
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1849
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Harriet
suffers continuing strokes
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Habeneck
dies.
Chopin dies. Meyerbeer's L'Africaine |
Staunton chess set design.
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Berlioz
appointed Head Librarian at Conservatoire.
Berlioz's sister Nanci dies. La fuite en Egypte. |
Ophicleide replaced by tuba as bass instrument
for brass section.
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First undersea cable across the English
Channel. Skipping rope becomes popular with children.
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1851 |
D'Indy
born.
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Ophthalmoscope invented. Foucault's pendulum
demonstrates rotation of the earth. Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.
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1852 |
Berlioz
publishes
Les Soirees de l'Orchestre |
Louis-Napoleon proclaimed Emperor Napoleon
III. Start of 2nd Empire.
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1853
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Messager born.
Premiere of Verdi' La Traviata.
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David Livingstone explores Africa.
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1854
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Death
of Harriet Smithson.
Premiere of L'Enfance du Christ Marries Marie Recio |
Napoleon supports Britain in the Crimean
War.
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Florence Nightingale in Crimea.
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1855
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Premieres
of:
Te Deum; L'Imperial |
Chausson
born.
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Use of screws becomes popular.
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1856
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Completes
Orchestration of
Les Nuits d'Ete. Elected to a chair at the Institute. |
First Steinway Grand piano produced.
Adolphe Adam dies. Schumann dies. |
Paris Peace conference ends Crimean War.
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Bessemer process for making steel invented.
Neanderthal man discovered in the Rhineland |
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1857
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1858
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Berlioz
meets Wagner in Paris.
Completes Les Troyens. |
Monkey wrench invented by Charles Moncky.
Theory of Evolution.
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1859
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Gounod's Faust |
Flying trapeze introduced.
First internal combustion engine developed, running on gas. |
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Adele
dies.
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Gustave Charpentier,
Isaac Albeniz born.
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Paris Opera built. Nice becomes
part of France
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Pasteur invents pasteurisation for the
preservation of food. Kellogg's cornflakes invented.
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1861 |
Composes
Le Temple Universel
Finishes Beatrice & Benedict. |
Wagner's Tanhauser produced at Paris Opera; causes uproar because there is no ballet. |
Velocipede invented.
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1862
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Death of Marie Recio.
Berlioz makes acquaintance of Amelie. Premiere of Beatrice & Benedict. |
Claude Achille
Debussy born.
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1863
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Premiere
of
Les Troyens a Carthage. |
Bizet's Pearl Fishers |
First London underground line opened
as the Metropolitan Line.
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1864
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Berlioz
resigns from Jounal des Debats
Visits Estelle in Dauphine. |
Geneva convention drafted and Red Cross
Organisation founded.
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1865
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Sterilisation of surgical instruments
introduced.
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1866
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First Trans-Atlantic cable laid.
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1867
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Berlioz meets Tchaikovsky.
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Koechlin
born
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Nobel invents dynamite. Queensbury rules
for boxing introduced.
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1868
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Death of Rossini
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Remington invents typewriter
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1869 |
Berlioz dies
and is buried in Montmartre.
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Birth of Satie.
Gounod's Faust produced
in Paris.
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Suez Canal opened.
Mendeleev publishes his periodic table. |