Boychoir In The Stream Of Time


	*"A boy sings ... a beautiful thing."*

Boychoir History

Boychoir in the Stream of Time

The 'Time Line' below is shown as it appears in George Bragg's first volume "The Big Book" and gives an overview of boychoir history from it's ancient beginnings to the present time. I would like to make this time line an ongoing project by gathering as much historical information as possible. If any visitor to this site comes across a piece of boychoir history that can be dated please send it along to me and I will place it in the time line. Please include a piece of contemporary history to place alongside the boychoir entry as well.

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Time Line

	3000 BC	Pyramids built
	2000 BC	Aryans migrate Abraham
	1728 BC	Hammurabi
Thebes (Boy singer)	1500 BC	Ankenaton
	1361 - 1351 BC	Tutankamen
	1250 BC	Moses
	1000 BC	Hinduism Trojan War David Homer
Boys used in worship	961 BC	Solomon (second Temple) 961 BC - 922 BC
	814 BC	Carthage founded by Phoenicians
	776 BC	First Olympics
	753 BC	Rome founded Great Wall of China begun Zoroaster
	760 BC	Persians rule Israel
	550 - 530 BC	Persia under Cyrus the Great
	521 BC	Darius I
	509 BC	Roman Republic founded
	500 BC	Budda
	490 BC	Confucius (509 - 479 BC)
	486 BC	Golden Age of Greece
	480 BC	Xerxes I Greeks defeat Persians at Salamis
	450 BC	Battle of Marathon
Boychoir monument in Athens	335 BC	Lysicrates
	323 BC	Alexander the Great Greeks rule Israel Greeks rule Egypt
	281 BC	Hannibal crosses the Alps
	214 BC	Great Wall of China (Begun ca. 750 BC)
	161 BC	Greeks conquered by Romans Cleopatra
	44 BC	Julius Caesar assassinated
	27 BC	Augustus Caesar
	4 BC	Birth of Christ
	70 AD	Fall of Jerusalem
First recorded song school North Africa ca. Carthage	117 AD	Roman Empire at height of power
	161 AD	Marcus Aurelius
	323 AD	Constantine the Great
Schola cantorum	314 - 352 AD	Sylvester
	410 AD	Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britons Roman withdrawal
	433 AD	Attila and Huns attack Europe
	440 AD	Pope Leo the Great
	455 AD	Rome sacked by Vandals
	476 AD	Western Roman Empire ends
Chartres Boychoir	485 AD
	500 - 570 AD	Mohammed
	511 AD	Clovis
	527 AD	Byzantine Emperor Justinian
	590 AD	Pope Gregory the Great
Schola cantorum Song School	597 AD	St. Augustine/Kent
	622 AD	Hegira (The Flight)

York Minster	627 AD
	673 - 678 AD	Arabs attack Constantinople
	711 AD	Spain conquered by Moors
	714 - 744 AD	Charles Martel
	787 AD	Vikings in Britian
Song Schools	800 AD	Charlemagne (771-814 AD) Holy Roman Empire
Montserrat	880 AD
	900 AD	Alfred the Great
Regensburger Domspatzen	1000 AD	Lief Ericson/America
Westminster Abbey	1066 AD	Norman invasion of England
	1096 AD	First Crusade: Jerusalem
	1097 AD	El Cid's death
Dresden Kreuzchor	1206 AD
St. Thomas School (Leipzig)	1212 AD
	1215 AD	King John/Magna Carta
Riga Doms Cathedral Boys' Choir founded	1240 - 1831 AD
	1260 AD	Kubla Khan Emporer of China
	1273 AD	Rise of Hapsburg Family
	1275 AD	Marco Polo
	1365 AD	Popes at Avignon
	1338 - 1453 AD	Hundred Years Wars
	1378 - 1417 AD	Great Schism (Papacy divides)
	1394 - 1450 AD	Henry, the Navigator
	1415 AD	Dukes of Normandy Battle of Agincourt
	1431 AD	Joan of Arc
	1434 AD	Medici/Florence

	1438 AD	Maxmillian/Hapsburg Holy Roman Empire
Pontifical Chapel (Rome)	1442 AD
Vienna Boys Choir	1489 AD
Scandanavian Chapels	1500's AD
	1505 AD	Ivan the Great Columbus Henry VIII Ferdinand and Isabella
	1516 AD	Charles V of Spain
	1517 AD	Martin Luther
	1518 AD	Spain in Mexico
Spanish Imperial Chapel under Phillip II (enlarged)	1556 AD	Phillip II of Spain
	1558 AD	Elizabeth I
	1607 AD	Jamestown
	1643 AD	Louis XIV
Russian Imperial Chapel	1689 AD	Peter I of Russia
	1762 AD	Catherine, the Great
	1776 AD	American Declaration of Independence George Washington
	1789 AD	French Revolution
	1805 AD	Battle of Trafalgar
	1815 AD	Battle of Waterloo
	1823 AD	Monroe Doctrine
	1837 AD	Queen Victoria
	1861 AD	USA Civil War
	1862 AD	Bismarck
	1914 - 1918 AD	World War I
	1917 - 1920 AD	Russian Civil War
	1941 - 1945 AD	World War II

	1945 AD	Atom Bomb
	1969 AD	First man on the Moon
Riga Doms Cathedral Boys' Choir reestablished when the Emils Darzins Music School Boys' Choir took the name of Riga Doms Cathedral Boys' Choir.	1990 AD
	2000 AD
	2001 AD
	2002 AD