||'''Date'''||'''Art'''||'''Music'''||'''Philosophy'''||'''Politics'''||'''Civilisation'''|| ||40,000 BC||Cave paintings||_||_||Mammalian bickering||Tribal|| ||10,000||_||_||_||_||Agriculture in Levant|| ||[[0 AD]]||_||_||__||A bizarre, rum and uncanny event in Bethlehem||Roman Empire|| ||325||_||_||_||Council of Nicea||Roman Empire|| ||664||_||_||_||Synod of Whitby||Dark Ages|| ||1314||Paintings are 'flat'. Perspective isn't used until the Renaissance||_||_||Knights Templar executed in France by Philip IV||Medieval|| ||1507||Da Vinci -- ''Mona Lisa''||_||_||_||Renaissance|| ||1512||Michelangelo -- Ceiling of Sistine Chapel||_||_||_||_|| ||1685||Painter||J.S. Bach (-1750)||Berkeley (-1759)||Politico||Kings '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 piano||Blake -- ''Songs of Innocence''||French Revolution||_|| ||1815||Goya -- ''Tauromaquia''||Schubert -- ''Der Erlkonig''||Malthus -- ''An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent''||Battle of Waterloo ends Napoleonic wars||Industrial Revolution|| ||1905||_||_||Einstein -- Special Relativity||_||_|| ||1913||_||Stravinsky -- ''Le Sacre du Printemps''||_||_||_|| ||1914||_||Webern -- ''Cello Sonata''||Russell||Europe decides to blow itself up, ''again''||Democracy??|| ||1916||_||W.C. Handy -- ''Beale St. Blues'' ; Bartok -- ''Suite for Piano''||Einstein -- General Relativity||_||_|| ||1937||Picasso -- ''Guernica''||Robert 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 crisis||Robert Anton Wilson contacts Sirius|| probably not births as the important date. better an important work.