Ancient Greek Theater

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496 B.C

Back 1

Sophocles is born.

Front 2

563-483 B.C

Back 2

Gautama Buddha, founding figure of Buddhism.

Front 3

468 B.C

Back 3

Sophocles wins Athenian Prize for plays

Front 4

450 B.C

Back 4

Death of Alexander the Great

Front 5

441 B.C and 440 B.C

Back 5

1. Sophocles writes Antigone

2. Roman Famine

Front 6

429 B.C

Back 6

Oedipus the King (Heroic Tragedy)

Front 7

430 B.C

Back 7

First performance of Sophocles's Oedipus the King

Front 8

411 B.C

Back 8

Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Front 9

406 B.C

Back 9

Sophocles Dies

Front 10

335 B.C

Back 10

Aristotle's Poetics, six fundamentals of drama

Front 11

214 B.C

Back 11

Great Wall of China begun

Front 12

146 B.C

Back 12

Rome conquers all Greek territory

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55 B.C

Back 13

First stone theatre built in Rome by Julius Caesar

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44 B.C

Back 14

Julius Caesar assassinated

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0

Back 15

Birth of Jesus

Front 16

398 A.D

Back 16

Actors denied sacraments of Catholic Church

Front 17

533 A.D

Back 17

Last recorded theatre performance in Rome

Front 18

570 A.D

Back 18

Birth of Mohammed

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1300s

Back 19

Beginning of the Ottoman Empire

Front 20

1350

Back 20

The Second Shepard's Play (mystery/cycle)

Front 21

mid 1300s

Back 21

Beginning of the Renaissance in Italy

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1380

Back 22

Kan'ami Kiyotsugu Matsukaze (noh drama)

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1429

Back 23

Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orleans

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1492

Back 24

Columbus sets sail to "discover" the Americas

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1500

Back 25

Everyman (morality play)

Front 26

1501 and 1503

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1. Michelangelo begins work on the statue David

2. DaVinci begins work on the Mona Lisa

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1548

Back 27

Battle of Uedahara: 1st time using guns in Japan

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1558-1603

Back 28

The Elizabethan Era is height of the English Renaissance

Front 29

1564-1616

Back 29

Shakespeare is born

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1601

Back 30

Shakespeare, Hamlet

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1607

Back 31

Jamestown Virginia is settled

Front 32

1664

Back 32

Moliere Tartuffe

Front 33

1693-1694

Back 33

Famine in France kills 2 million

Front 34

1642-1715

Back 34

French King Louis XIV years of reign

Front 35

1748

Back 35

Chikamatsu The Forty-Seven Samurai, Kabuki drama

Front 36

1776

Back 36

Declaration of Independence

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1660-1940

Back 37

Proscenium stage perfected

Front 38

1861-1865

Back 38

American Civil War

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1879

Back 39

Ibsen A Doll's House, modernism

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1875

Back 40

Electric lighting in theaters (London)

Front 41

1904

Back 41

Anton Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, psychological realism

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1927

Back 42

Talking Picture

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1941

Back 43

Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, Epic Theater

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1944

Back 44

Williams, The Glass Menagerie, poetic realism

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1948

Back 45

Television

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1949

Back 46

Miller, Death of a Salesman, post-war social realism

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1957

Back 47

Samuel Beckett, Endgame, Theatre of the Absurd

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1961

Back 48

Kennedy becomes president

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1963

Back 49

Kennedy Assassination and MLK "I have a dream" speech

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1968

Back 50

Assassinations of MILK and Robert Kennedy

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early 1970s

Back 51

Death of Steven Biko (South Africa)

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1970s

Back 52

Birth of the Feminist movement worldwide

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1984

Back 53

Aids virus identified

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1985

Back 54

August Wilson, Fences, poetic realism

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1989

Back 55

Exxon Valdez oil spill

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1991

Back 56

Tony Kushner, Angels in America, magic realism

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1990

Back 57

Nelson Mandela released from jail

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1991

Back 58

World wide web goes public

Front 59

1997

Back 59

Dolly the sheep is cloned