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CHRONOLOGIUM ACADEMICUS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. At about the time of Leif Ericsson’s landfall in North America (1000 AD):
a. Gunpowder was discovered in China;b. Avicenna wrote The Canon of Medicine;c. The Druse sect of Islam was founded; and,d. The musical staff notation system was developed by Guido d’Arezzo. 2. At about the time Trial by Jury was established in England (1164):
a. The Incas flourished in the Cuzco area of Peru;b. Peter Lombard wrote The Four Books of Sentences;c. Construction of Notre Dame de Paris was begun; and,d. Maimonides wrote his Guide For the Perplexed. 3. At about the time Christopher Columbus reached the New World (1492):
a. The Spanish Inquisition was established by Ferdinand and Isabella;b. Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper;c. Cossacks first formed into bands in the Ukraine; and,d. Double-entry bookkeeping was introduced by Luca di Pacioli. 4. At about the time of the Pilgrim landing (1620):
a. Galileo Galilei flourished in Italy;b. The Romanov Dynasty was founded in Russia;c. The slide rule was invented by William Oughtred; and,d. Hugo Grotius wrote The Law of War and Peace. 5. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83):
a. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Joseph Haydn flourished in Europe;b. Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations;c. Capt. James Cook discovered Hawaii;d. Immanuel Kant wrote The Critique of Pure Reason; and,e. Franz Mesmer introduced hypnotism through his Dissertation on Animal Magnetism. 6. The same year the Bastille was stormed (1789):
a. George Washington became president;b. The mutiny aboard H.M.S. Bounty occurred; c. Uranium was discovered by Martin Klaproth; and,d. The Anglican Church became the Episcopal Church in the United States. 7. At about the time the Monroe Doctrine was declared (1823):
a. Shaka Zulu was Paramount Chief of the Zulus;b. Franz Schubert composed his Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished;”c. Sir Walter Scott wrote Ivanhoe; and,d. Hieroglyphics were deciphered by Jean François Champollion. 8. At about the time of the American Civil War (1860-65):
a. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species;b. Russia’s serfs were emancipated by Czar Alexander II;c. Victor Hugo wrote Les miserables;d. Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital; and,e. Richard Wagner composed Tristan und Isolde. 9. The same year that Marcel Proust started writing Remembrance of Things Past (1913):
a. A near-riot occurred at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s startlingly dissonant Rite of Spring;b. Henry Moseley revised the Periodic Table of the elements via the assignment of atomic numbers;c. Mammography was developed by Albert Salomon; and,d. The ozone layer of the upper atmosphere was discovered by Charles Fabry. 10. During World War II (1939-45):
a. John Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath;b. Leon Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico by a Stalinist agent;c. Jean-Paul Sartre wrote Being and Nothingness; and,d. John Von Neumann & Oskar Morgenstern applied game theory to economics. | ||||
