1860	July 7 — born in Kalište, Bohemia
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Paris)	1861		Civil War, USA - until 1865
Verdi: La forza del destino	1862		Bismarck Chancellor of Prussia             Hugo: Les Misérables
Bruckner: 1st Symphony	1864		Karl Marx founds the 1st International Matterhorn climbed     1st transatlantic cable
Thomas: Mignon Smetana: The Bartered Bride	1866		Dostoyevski: Crime and Punishment
Verdi: Don Carlo J. Strauß: Blue Danube Waltz	1867		Emperor Franz-Josef (until 1916)             Ibsen: Peer Gynt             Marx + Engels: Das Kapital
Brahms: A German Requiem	1868		Dostoyevski: The Idiot
	1869		Suez Canal opened             Tolstoy: War and Peace
Wagner: Die Walküre	1870	plays in piano recital in Jihlava	Papal infallibility proclaimed Franco-Prussian War     Schliemann in Troy
Verdi: Aïda	1871
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov J. Strauß: Die Fledermaus	1874
Bizet: Carmen	1875	begins studies at the Vienna Conservatory
1st Bayreuth Festival	1876		Telephone invented
Wagner: Parsifal Saint-Saëns: Samson and Delilah	1877		Phonograph invented
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin	1879		light bulb invented             Ibsen: A Doll's House             Dostoyevski:                  The Brothers Karamasov
	1880	Conductor, Bad Hall Das klagende Lied
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann	1881	1st Kapellmeister, Lyubliana	Czar Alexander II assassinated     Panama Canal     St. Gotthard Tunnel opened
Brahms: 3rd Symphony Met opened Concertgebouw founded	1883	Conductor, Kassel sees Parsifal in Bayreuth	Daimler's auto motor patented             Nietzsche:                 Also sprach Zarathustra             Stevenson: Treasure Island
Massenet: Manon Bruckner: 8th Symphony	1884	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen	Pasteur immunizes for rabies
J. Strauß: Der Zigeunerbaron Brahms: 4th Symphony	1885	Conductor, Prague
	1886	Conductor, Leipzig
Borodin: Prince Igor Verdi: Otello	1887		Marconi sends radio messages
Tchaikovsky: 5th Symphony	1888	Director, Budapest 1st Symphony	Emperor Wilhelm II (until 1918)         Van Gogh: The Sunflowers
R. Strauss: Don Juan Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch	1889		Boer War begins     Eiffel Tower
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame	1890	Trip to Italy with Justine
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch	1891	1st Kapellmeister, Hamburg, until 1897 Scandinavia trip	Doyle: Sherlock Holmes
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune	1892	Guest performances in London
Humperdinck: Hänsel und Gretel Puccini: Manon Lescaut Verdi: Falstaff Tchaikovsky: 6th Symphony	1893
Dvorák: 9th Symphony	1894	2nd Symphony	Czar Nicholas II crowned             Kipling: The Jungle Book
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel	1895		X-rays discovered
Puccini: La Bohème Wolf: Der Corregidor	1896	3rd Symphony
R. Strauss: Don Quixote	1897	becomes a Catholic Director, Vienna Hofoper, until 1907
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante defunte Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht	1899	buys property in Maiernigg
Puccini: Tosca Charpentier: Louise	1900	4th Symphony Paris Tour with the Philharmonic	Zeppelin builds dirigible
Schönberg: Gurrelieder	1901	Engagement to Alma Schindler	Planck's Quantum Theory
Debussy: Pelléas and Mélisande	1902	Marriage to Alma Schindler 5th Symphony	Radium discovered
	1903	Tristan with Roller	First flight of the Wright brothers
Puccini: Madame Butterfly	1904	6th Symphony	Russo-Japanese War             Tchechov: The Cherry Orchard             Barrie: Peter Pan
Debussy: La Mer R. Strauss: Salome Lehár: The Merry Widow	1905	7th Symphony	Freud introduces psychoanalysis     Einstein's Theory of Relativity
	1906	8th Symphony
	1907	Daughter Maria dies Last performance in Vienna	first radio broadcast of music
	1908	Conductor, Metropolitan Opera, until 1911
R. Strauss: Elektra	1909	Das Lied von der Erde Conductor, New York Philharmonic	Molnar: Liliom
Ravel: Daphnis und Chloë Stravinsky: The Firebird	1910	9th Symphony begins the 10th Symphony Meeting with Freud	Whitehead: Principia Mathematica
R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Stravinsky: Petrushka Bartok: Herzog Blaubarts Burg	1911	May 18 dies in Vienna	Amundsen reaches the South Pole
Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire R. Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos	1912		Titanic sinks