Jahsonic's timeline
By century
- 1100s Start of the medieval inquisition
- 1200s St. Thomas Aquinas held that homosexuality, indeed any sexual act that could not result in pregnancy, was a terrible sexual sin, worse than rape
- 1300s The Black Death (The Plague) epidemic in Europe
- 1400s Johann Gutenberg invents printing press using movable type cast from metal
- 1500s I modi - Romano, Raimondi, Aretino | Copernicus states that the earth and planets revolve around the sun
- 1600s Elizabeth Báthory, serial killer, reputed to have been responsible for the torture and murder of over six hundred peasants.
- 1700s the industrial revolution (UK)
- 1800s the industrial revolution
- 1900s the information revolution
- 2000s 9/11 terrorist attack
By decade
- 1860s L'Origine du Monde/The Origin of the World (1866) - Gustave Courbet
- 1870s Venus in Furs (1870) Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
- 1880s Development and commercial production of electric lighting
- 1890s Scream (1893) - Edvard Munch
- 1900s The Interpretation of Dreams - Freud
- 1910s WWI
- 1920s The Jazz Age
- 1930s The Great Depression, the nazis rise to power
- 1940s WWII, resistance
- 1950s Revival
- 1960s Hippie rebellion
- 1970s Disco hedonism
- 1980s Digital Revolution
- 1990s The Internet
- 2000s 9/11 terrorist attack
By year (1860-1999)
1860: Les Paradis Artificiels Charles Baudelaire 1861 England dropped the death penalty for male homosexual acts 1862 Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs declares himself an urning [homosexual] 1863 Salon des Refusés / Le Déjeuner sur l' Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass) - Manet 1864 Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky 1865 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 1866 Courbet paints "The Origin of the World", first publicly desplayed in 1995 1867 Das Kapital - Karl Marx 1868 l'Ecole des biches - Edmund Duponchel, Frederick Hankey & Alfred Bégis. 1869 Maldoror (1869) - Comte De Lautreamont 1870 Venus in Furs (1870) Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch 1871 To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. --Arthur Rimbaud 1872 Carmilla (1872) - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1873 Comstock Act of 1873 1874 Danse Macabre - Camille Saint-Saëns 1875 Nocturne in Black and Gold, the Falling Rocket, (ca. 1875) James Abbott McNeill Whistler 1876 Dewey Decimal System introduced 1877 Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1877) - Pisanus Fraxi 1878 Thomas Edison: first electric light 1879 Pornokrates (1879) - Félicien Rops 1880 Skene's glands discovered by Alexander Skene 1881 by 1881, the French government withdrew its support from the official Salons 1882 'Zuiderpershuis' built 1883 Théorie de la Décadence (1883) - Paul Bourget 1884 Flatland (1880) - Edwin A. Abbott 1885 Catena Librorum Tacendorum (1885) - Henry Spencer Ashbee 1886 Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) - Richard Von Krafft-Ebing 1887 Du Fétichisme dans l’amour 1887 - Alfred Binet 1888 Jack the Ripper kills his first victim 1889 Paris Exposition 1890 Golden Bough (1890) - James George Frazer 1891 Scatalogic Rites of All Nations (1891) - John G. Bourke 1892 Prélude à après-midi d'un Faune (1892) - Claude Debussy 1893 Scream (1893) - Edvard Munch 1894 Bilitis (1894) - Pierre Louÿs 1895 Cinema's first paying audiences 1896 Sexual Inversion as Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühle (1896) - Havelock Ellis 1897 Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee 1898 La Femme et le Pantin/The She Devils (1898) - Pierre Louys 1899 The Torture Garden (1899) - Octave Mirbeau 1900 The Interpretation of Dreams (1900) - Sigmund Freud 1901 Judith I, 1901 - Gustav Klimt 1902 Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) (1902) - Georges Méliès 1903 Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) - Thomas Edison 1904 Neue Forschungen über den Marquis de Sade und seine Zeit - Iwan Bloch 1905 Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) - Sigmund Freud 1906 first record broadcast over radio 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) - Picasso 1908 Braque and Picasso's first Cubist experiments 1909 The first recorded use of 'marihuana' in the United States 1910 First cases of nasal damage from Cocaine snorting are written of in medical literature 1911 Mona Lisa Stolen 1912 "Handbuch der gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen" (Handbook of Sexology in its Entirety Presented in Separate Studies) - Iwan Bloch 1913 Bicycle Wheel Ready-made (1913) - Marcel Duchamp 1914 Start of WWI 1915 A Fool There Was (1915) - Frank Powell 1916 The First Dada Manifesto 1917 Ready-Made (1917) - Marcel Duchamp 1918 End of WWI, start of Weimar Republic 1919 Bauhaus institute founded 1920 Sainte Vierge (1920) - Picabia 1921 Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921) - Luigi Pirandello 1922 Nosferatu - FW Murnau 1923 Sexual Aberrations (1923) - Wilhelm Stekel 1924 George Antheil Ballet Mécanique 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes 1926 Anémic cinéma (1926) - Marcel Duchamp 1927 Metropolis (1927) - Fritz Lang 1928 Un Chien Andalou - Dali/Buñuel 1929 Jacques-Andre Boiffard, The Big Toe (1929) 1930 L'Age d'Or (1930) - Luis Bunuel 1931 Solar Anus (1927/1931) - Georges Bataille 1932 Voyage au bout de la nuit/Journey to the End of the Night (1932) - by Louis-Ferdinand D. Céline 1933 Nazis Rise to Power (1933-1945) 1934 The Ethics of Sexual Acts (1934) - Rene Guyon 1935 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - Walter Benjamin 1936 Modern Times (1936) - Charlie Chaplin 1937 Germany, Degenerate Art exhibition 1938 Hitler man of the year in Time Magazine 1939 Avant-Garde and Kitsch - Clement Greenberg 1940 Start of WWII 1941 Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos 1942 Cinq Femmes 1942 - Francis Picabia 1943 Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) - Jean Genet 1944 The Hollywood Hallucination (1944) - Parker Tyler 1945 End of WWII 1946 Paysage Fautif/Wayward Landscape (1946) - Marcel Duchamp 1947 From Caligari to Hitler (1947) - Siegfried Kracauer 1948 Beat Generation 1949 The Blood of the Beasts/Le sang des betes (1949) - Georges Franju 1950 Un Chant d'Amour (1950) - Jean Genet 1951 Grove Press launched 1952 "Must We Burn Sade?" (1952) - Simone de Beauvoir 1953 Olympia Press launched 1954 L'Histoire d'O/Story of O (1954) - Pauline Reage 1955 Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov 1956 Just What is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing? (1956) - Richard Hamilton 1957 Internationale Situationiste/Situationiste International founded 1958 Brussels World Fair 1959 Naked Lunch (1959) - William S. Burroughs 1960 Peeping Tom (1960) - Michael Powell 1961 Merda d'Artista (1961) - Piero Manzoni 1962 Marily Monroe commits suicide 1963 Flaming Creatures (1963) - Jack Smith 1964 Notes on Camp (1964) - Susan Sontag 1965 Hippie coined 1966 Gordon (1966) - Edith Templeton 1967 Belle de Jour (1967) - Luis Buñuel 1968 Paris, May 1968 revolts 1969 New York, Stonewall incident 1970 El Topo (1970) - Alexandro Jodorowsky 1971 A Clockwork Orange (1971) - Stanley Kubrick 1972 Deep Throat (1972) - Gerard Damiano 1973 La Grande Bouffe (1973) - Marco Ferreri 1974 Film As a Subversive Art (1974) - Amos Vogel 1975 Shivers (1975) - David Cronenberg 1976 Je t'aime, moi non plus (1976) - Serge Gainsbourg 1977 Eraserhead (1977) - David Lynch 1978 Les livres de l'Enfer (1978) - Pascal Pia 1979 USA, Disco sucks 1980 Dressed to Kill (1980) - Brian De Palma 1981 first cases of AIDS 1982 Ranx 1: Ranx à New-york (1982) - Stefano Tamburini/Tanino Liberatore 1983 Videodrome (1983) - David Cronenberg 1984 Apple Macintosh introduced 1985 House music: Mysteries of Love (1985) - Fingers, Inc. 1986 Incredibly Strange Films (1986) - V. Vale, Andrea Juno 1987 A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1987) - Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari 1988 Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios/Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988) - Pedro Almodóvar 1989 Europe: Berlin wall falls 1990 Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) - Camille Paglia 1991 American Psycho (1991) - Bret Easton Ellis 1992 C'est Arrivé Pres de Chez Vous/Man Bites Dog (1992) - André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde 1993 Wired magazine launched 1994 Riget/The Kingdom (1994) - Morten Arnfred, Lars von Trier 1995 The Origin of the World (1866) - Gustave Courbet, first time publicly displayed 1996 A Brief History of Everything (1996) - Ken Wilber 1997 Funny Games (1997) - Michael Haneke 1998 Fucking Åmål, Show Me Love (1998) - Lukas Moodysson 1999 Romance (1999) - Catherine Breillat
[ 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003Time Shifting
The personal video recorder (or PVR) is a consumer electronics device that records television shows to a hard disk in digital format.
This makes the "time shifting" feature (traditionally done by a VCR) much more convenient. --http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_video_recorder [Jul 2004]
List of film directors (by date of birth)
Edward Muybridge - Thomas Edison - Georges Méliès - Louis Feuillade - Robert Wiene - Cecil B. DeMille - Erich von Stroheim - F.W. Murnau - Abel Gance - Jean Cocteau - Fritz Lang - Jean Renoir - Dziga Vertov - Sergei Eisenstein - Alfred Hitchcock - Oskar Fischinger - Luis Buñuel - Leni Riefenstahl - Luchino Visconti - Kroger Babb - Robert Bresson - Jacques Tati - Riccardo Freda - Akira Kurosawa - Georges Franju - Mario Bava - Orson Welles - Maya Deren - Ingmar Bergman - Gualtiero Jacopetti - Federico Fellini - Chris Marker - Joe Sarno - Pier Paolo Pasolini - Russ Meyer - Alain Resnais - José Bénazéraf - Walerian Borowczyk - Yasuzo Masumura - Vilgot Sjöman - Max Pécas - Roger Corman - Ken Russell - Stanley Kubrick - Nicolas Roeg - Roger Vadim - Jacques Rivette - Radley Metzger - Alexandro Jodorowsky - José Ramón Larraz - Jess Franco - Claude Chabrol - Kenneth Anger - Dusan Makavejev - Nagisa Oshima - François Truffaut - Fernando Arrabal - Jack Smith - Stan Brakhage - Tinto Brass - Roman Polanski - Juzo Itami - Donald Cammell - Jan Svankmajer - Woody Allen - Koji Wakamatsu - Jean Rollin - Paul Bartel - Francis Coppola - Bertrand Blier - Peter Bogdanovich - Bernardo Bertolucci - Just Jaeckin - George Romero - Larry Cohen - Barbet Schroeder - Krzysztof Kieslowski - Michael Haneke - Peter Greenaway - Werner Herzog - Derek Jarman - Martin Scorcese - David Cronenberg - Larry Clark - Bo Arne Vibenius - Jonathan Demme - Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Wim Wenders - David Lynch - John Waters - Joe Dante - Patrice Leconte - Brothers Quay - Catherine Breillat - John Carpenter - Pedro Almodóvar - John Sayles - Abel Ferrara - Alex van Warmerdam - Gus Van Sant - Alex Cox - Coen Brothers - Jane Campion - James Cameron - Lars von Trier - Spike Lee - Tim Burton - Takashi Miike - Todd Haynes - Michael Winterbottom - Gaspar Noé - Quentin Tarantino - François Ozon - Spike Jonze - P.T. Anderson - Christopher Nolan [Apr 2005]
List of artists (by date of birth)
Garden of Earthly Delights (detail) - Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch - Quentin Massys - Albrecht Dürer - Lucas Cranach - Brueghel - Arcimboldo - Peter Paul Rubens - François Boucher - Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty - Henry Fuseli - Francisco de Goya - Hokusai - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - Gustave Courbet - Arnold Böcklin - Edouard Manet - Félicien Rops - William Morris - Antoni Gaudí - Gustav Klimt - Rupert Carabin - Edvard Munch - Paul Chabas - Aubrey Beardsley - Francis Picabia - Pablo Picasso - Fernand Léger - Max Beckman - Raoul Hausmann - Marcel Duchamp - Le Corbusier - Clovis Trouille - Egon Schiele - Man Ray - Otto Dix - Max Ernst - George Grosz - René Magritte - Pierre Molinier - Hans Bellmer - John Willie - Salvador Dalí - Cecil Beaton - Carlo Mollino - Unica Zürn - Balthus - Jackson Pollock - Piero Fornasetti - Ettore Sottsass - Helmut Newton - Georges Pichard - Marcel Mariën - Joseph Beuys - Richard Hamilton - Marcel Broodthaers - Otto Mühl - Eric Stanton - Yves Klein - Andy Warhol - Guy Bourdin - Luigi Colani - William Klein - Frank Gehry - Joe Colombo - Guido Crepax - Paula Rego - Piero Manzoni - Jan Hoet - Allen Jones - Hermann Nitsch - Jean Giraud - Roland Topor - Robert Smithson - Gaetano Pesce - Joel Peter Witkin - Richard Bernstein - Panamarenko - Nobuyoshi Araki - H.R. Giger - Vito Acconci - Dan Graham - Fred Bervoets - Robert Crumb - Luc Deleu - Milo Manara - Eric Kroll - Jacques Tardi - Marina Abramoviæ - Marina Abramoviæ - Guillaume Bijl - Laurie Anderson - Hajime Sorayama - Jamie Reid - Eric Fischl - Andres Serrano - Jenny Holzer - Tanino Liberatore - Romain Slocombe - Mike Kelley - Richard Kern - Cindy Sherman - Jeff Koons - Gilles Berquet - Keith Haring - Mirka Lugosi - Luc Tuymans - Jan Fabre - Danny Devos - Jean Michel Basquiat - Tracey Emin - Wim Delvoye - Damien Hirst - John Currin - Matthew Barney - Chris Ofili - David LaChapelle - Vanessa BeecroftAn A-Z of music people
By date of birth: Johannes Brahms - Claude Debussy - Richard Strauss - Arnold Schoenberg - Igor Stravinsky - Edgar Varèse - Luigi Russolo - George Antheil - Pierre Schaeffer - Bernard Herrmann - John Cage - Sun Ra - Duke Reid - Moondog - Candido - Rudy Van Gelder - Olatunji - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Serge Gainsbourg - Ornette Coleman - Donald Byrd - Sir Coxsone Dodd - James Brown - Manu Dibango - Yoko Ono - Elvis Presley - Sylvia Robinson - Lee Perry - Leon Thomas - Chris Blackwell - Fela Kuti - Tony Allen - Roy Ayers - Giorgio Moroder - Herbie Hancock - Pharoah Sanders - George Clinton - Tom Moulton - Frank Zappa - Frank Zappa - Stanley Cowell - King Tubby - Marc Moulin - Joe Bataan - Jimi Hendrix - Milton Nascimiento - Michael Nyman - David Mancuso - Patti Labelle - LLoyd Barnes - Bob Marley - Terry Callier - Malcolm McLaren - Kraftwerk - Loleatta Holloway - David Bowie - Sylvester - Jackie Mittoo - Brian Eno - Martin Hannet - Francis Grasso - Tee Scott - Glenn Branca - Nick Drake - Peter Zummo - Genesis P-Orridge - Patrick Adams - Bill Laswell - Patrick Cowley - Tony Wilson - Bootsy Collins - Richard Pinhas - Arthur Russell - Grace Jones - Rhys Chatham - Sly Dunbar - John Oswald - Larry Levan - Augustus Pablo - Linval Thompson - Frankie Knuckles - Kool Herc - DJ Spooky - John Lydon - Doug Wimbish - Masami Akita - Grandmaster Flash - Adrian Sherwood - Afrika Bambaataa - Larry Heard - Scientist - Manu Chao - Juan Atkins - Steve Albini - Derrick May - Jeff Mills - Joe Claussell - Moodymann - Theo Parrish