DateArtMusicPhilosophyPoliticsCivilisation
40,000 BCCave paintings__Mammalian bickeringTribal
10,000____Agriculture in Levant
[0 AD]?____A bizarre, rum and uncanny event in BethlehemRoman Empire
325___Council of NiceaRoman Empire
664___Synod of WhitbyDark Ages
1314Paintings are 'flat'. Perspective isn't used until the Renaissance__Knights Templar executed in France by Philip IVMedieval
1507Da Vinci — Mona Lisa___Renaissance
1512Michelangelo — Ceiling of Sistine Chapel____
1685PainterJ.S. Bach (-1750)Berkeley (-1759)PoliticoKings 'n stuff
1687__Newton — Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica__
1762__Rousseau — The Social Contract_Enlightenment
1789_Beethoven — Opus 39 Two preludes in all 12 major keys for pianoBlake — Songs of InnocenceFrench Revolution_
1815Goya — TauromaquiaSchubert — Der ErlkonigMalthus — An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of RentBattle of Waterloo ends Napoleonic warsIndustrial Revolution
1905__Einstein — Special Relativity__
1913_Stravinsky — Le Sacre du Printemps___
1914_Webern — Cello SonataRussellEurope decides to blow itself up, againDemocracy??
1916_W.C. Handy — Beale St. Blues ; Bartok — Suite for PianoEinstein — General Relativity__
1937Picasso — GuernicaRobert Johnson — Cross Road Blues ; Shostakovich — Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47___
1939___Europe decides to blow itself up, yet again_
1945___Hiroshima — the Sun rises in the west_
1973_Pink Floyd — Dark Side of the Moon_Watergate scandal ; Oil crisisRobert Anton Wilson contacts Sirius

probably not births as the important date. better an important work.