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