🕊️ Songs of Peace & Social Change Chronological History Timeline

Chronological Timeline (69 Entries)

1. [1189] Republic of Ragusa — The name Dubrovnik of the Adriatic city is first recorded in the Charter of Ban Kulin (1189).
2. [1257] Greater Poland — The more specific name is first recorded in the Latin form Polonia Maior in 1257 and in Polish w Wielkej Polszcze in 1449.
3. [1859] Black Saturday bushfires — The February fires commenced on a day when several localities across the state, including Melbourne, recorded their highest temperatures since records began in 1859.
4. [1892] Kate Chopin — From 1892 to 1895, Chopin wrote short stories for both children and adults that were published in national magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, The Century Magazine, and The Youth's Companion.
5. [1922] Mário de Andrade — He wrote one of the first and most influential collections of modern Brazilian poetry, Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City), published in 1922.
6. [1939] Woody Guthrie — He worked at the Los Angeles radio station KFVD, achieving some fame from playing hillbilly music, befriended Will Geer and John Steinbeck, and wrote a column for the communist newspaper People's World from May 1939 to January 1940.
7. [1940] Pete Seeger — He achieved national recognition through radio appearances in the 1940s and released successful records in the early 1950s while participating in The Weavers.
8. [1942] Anil Biswas (composer) — The most notable of the over 90 films he composed music for were: Roti (1942), Kismet (1943), Anokha Pyar (1948), Tarana (1951), Waris (1954), Pardesi (1957) and Char Dil Char Rahen (1959).
9. [1948] Bing Crosby — In 1948, Music Digest estimated that Crosby's recordings filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded radio music in North America.
10. [1950] Kenny Rogers — In the late 1950s, Rogers began his recording career with the Houston-based group the Scholars, who first released "The Poor Little Doggie".
11. [1956] Bob Johnston — He notably recorded several rockabilly singles under the moniker Don Johnston between 1956 and 1961.
12. [1960] Emmylou Harris — After relocating to New York City during the 1960s, she recorded her initial folk album and began performing in regional settings.
13. [1960] Miriam Makeba — She moved to New York City, where she became immediately popular, and recorded her first solo album in 1960.
14. [1965] Bob Marley — The Wailers released their debut album in 1965, featuring the globally recognized single "One Love.
15. [1965] The Dubliners — The Dubliners worked with Behan regularly between 1965 and 1966; Behan wrote numerous songs for this act, including the song "McAlpine's Fusiliers" created specifically to showcase Ronnie Drew's gravel voice.
16. [1967] Al Stewart — Stewart has released 16 studio and four live albums since his debut album Bed-Sitter Images in 1967, and continues to tour extensively in the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK.
17. [1968] Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — CSN formed in 1968 shortly after Crosby, Stills and Nash performed together informally, discovering they harmonized well.
18. [1968] Eikichi Yazawa — He started to learn the guitar, and on New Year's Day of 1968, he composed his first song, “I Love You, OK”.
19. [1968] Joni Mitchell — Although some of her early songs were recorded by others, this period led to her signing with Reprise Records and recording her debut album, Song to a Seagull, in 1968.
20. [1969] Donovan — The compilation Donovan's Greatest Hits was released in March 1969 and peaked at No.
21. [1969] Happy End (band) — Happy End was a seminal Japanese folk rock ensemble that performed between 1969 and 1972.
22. [1969] Haruomi Hosono — Hosono first came to attention in Japan as the bass player of the psychedelic rock band Apryl Fool, alongside drummer Takashi Matsumoto, who released the album The Apryl Fool in 1969.
23. [1969] Milton Glaser — In 1969, he produced and designed "Short Subject", commonly known as "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam", a short 16mm anti-war film directed by Whitney Lee Savage (father of Adam Savage).
24. [1969] Nick Drake — His initial output included the debut album Five Leaves Left released in 1969.
25. [1969] Yōsui Inoue — Under the stage name Andre Candre, Inoue debuted in 1969 and released a single "Candre Mandre" by CBS Sony Records.
26. [1970] Alan Lomax — In the 1970s and 1980s, Lomax advised the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival and produced a series of films about folk music, American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
27. [1970] Debbie Friedman — Friedman wrote many of her early songs as a song leader at the overnight camp Olin Sang Ruby Union Institute in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, in the early 1970s.
28. [1970] Eiichi Ohtaki — Happy End produced three albums, Happy End (1970), Kazemachi Roman (1971) and Happy End (1973), before officially disbanding on New Year's Eve 1972.
29. [1970] Eric Clapton — Clapton then toured with Delaney & Bonnie and recorded his first solo album in 1970, before forming Derek and the Dominos with Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon.
30. [1970] Kazumasa Oda — As the vocalist of Off Course, Oda wrote many Japanese standard numbers in the 1970s and 1980s.
31. [1970] Paul McCartney — After the Beatles disbanded, he debuted as a solo artist with the 1970 album McCartney and went on to form the band Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine.
32. [1970] Phil Spector — In the 1970s, he produced the Beatles' Let It Be, solo recordings by John Lennon and George Harrison, and Dion DiMucci's Born to Be with You, Leonard Cohen's Death of a Ladies' Man, and the Ramones' End of the Century.
33. [1971] Bonnie Raitt — In 1971, Raitt released her self-titled debut album.
34. [1971] Peter Gabriel — As the band's lead vocalist and principal lyricist, several of the albums released during his tenure, such as Nursery Cryme (1971), Foxtrot (1972) and Selling England by the Pound (1973), are considered progressive rock classics.
35. [1972] Bob Marley and the Wailers — Before signing to Island Records in 1972, the band released four albums.
36. [1972] Bruce Springsteen — Nicknamed "the Boss", Springsteen has released 21 studio albums spanning six decades; most feature the E Street Band, his backing band since 1972.
37. [1972] Yukihiro Takahashi — While studying at the Musashino Art University Junior College of Art and Design in 1972, Takahashi dropped out to join the Sadistic Mika Band at the invitation of Kazuhiko Katō (formerly of The Folk Crusaders), replacing drummer Hiro Tsunoda.
38. [1973] Bobby Darin — Walden Robert Cassotto (May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973), known by the stage name Bobby Darin, was an American singer, songwriter, and actor who performed pop, swing, folk, rock and roll and country music.
39. [1974] George Harrison — In his role as a music and film producer, Harrison produced acts signed to the Beatles' Apple record label before founding Dark Horse Records in 1974.
40. [1975] Charly García — The band separated in 1975 with a mythical concert at the Luna Park that produced a double album and a feature film.
41. [1975] Keith Jarrett — His album The Köln Concert, released in 1975, is the best-selling piano recording in history.
42. [1976] Bryan Ferry — His third solo album, Let's Stick Together (1976), produced two UK Top 10 hits with "Let's Stick Together" and "The Price of Love".
43. [1979] Ahmad Zahir — Zahir recorded at least 14 studio albums before his abrupt death on his 33rd birthday in 1979.
44. [1980] Yoko Ono — She achieved commercial and critical success in 1980 with the chart-topping album Double Fantasy, a collaboration with Lennon which was released three weeks before his murder, winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
45. [1982] Benjamin Zephaniah — In 1982, he released an album, Rasta, which featured the Wailers performing for the first time since the death of Bob Marley, acting as a tribute to Nelson Mandela.
46. [1982] Carolyn Dennis — In 1982, Dennis performed the role of Poppea in a modern adaptation of Monteverdi's L'Incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) at Xenon Discothèque in New York City.
47. [1983] Gao Xingjian — The Bus Stop (1983) and The Other Shore (1986) had their productions halted by the Chinese government, with the acclaimed Wild Man (1985) the last work of his to be publicly performed in China.
48. [1987] Buju Banton — Banton released several dancehall singles as early as 1987 but came to prominence in 1992 with two albums, Stamina Daddy and Mr.
49. [1987] Cher — After a period of acting, she released the hair metal albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989) and Love Hurts (1991), scoring international top-ten hits "If I Could Turn Back Time" and "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)".
50. [1987] Jagjit Singh — His 1987 album, Beyond Time, was the first digitally recorded release in India.
51. [1988] Kim Kwang-seok — He subsequently achieved widespread recognition through his involvement with the folk group Dongmulwon, which debuted in 1988.
52. [1989] Nas — The son of jazz musician Olu Dara, Nas began his musical career in 1989 under the moniker "Nasty Nas", and recorded demos under the wing of fellow East Coast rapper Large Professor.
53. [1989] Tracy Chapman — In 1989, she released her second album, Crossroads, which earned her an additional Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Folk Album.
54. [1994] Yoon Do-hyun — In 1994, Yoon released his debut solo album, In Front of the Post Office in Autumn (가을 우체국 앞에서).
55. [1996] Ludovico Einaudi — Einaudi has composed the scores for a number of films and television productions, including This Is England, The Intouchables, I'm Still Here, the TV series Doctor Zhivago, and Acquario (1996), for which he won the Grolla d'oro.
56. [1998] Lauryn Hill — Her debut solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), debuted atop the Billboard 200 with the highest first-week sales for a female artist at the time and became the first recording by a female rapper to be certified diamond.
57. [1999] Hikaru Utada — Released the following year, their second album and Japanese-language debut, First Love (1999), leaned further into R&B and dance-pop influences; it was a commercial success, becoming Japan's best-selling album of all time.
58. [2001] Chitose Hajime — In March 2001, she released a self-titled mini-album through Augusta Records.
59. [2003] Ram Gopal (dancer) — Bissano Ram Gopal OBE (20 November 1912 – 12 October 2003) was an Indian dancer and choreographer who performed mostly as a soloist and toured extensively throughout his lengthy career.
60. [2005] Amrita Pritam — mɾɪt̪ɑː pɾiːt̪əm] ; 31 August 1919 – 31 October 2005) was an Indian novelist, essayist and poet, who wrote in Punjabi and Hindi.
61. [2005] Nam Hyun-joon — Nam released a song titled 'Lion's Roar' in 2005 which lyrically describes his hardship and determination for dance.
62. [2005] Taylor Swift — Swift signed with Big Machine Records in 2005 and debuted as a country singer with the albums Taylor Swift (2006) and Fearless (2008).
63. [2009] Kai (singer, born 1981) — In 2009, he completed his master's degree and wrote his thesis on the music of Modest Musorgsky.
64. [2014] Aurora (singer) — Aurora signed with Petroleum, Decca, and Glassnote Records in 2014, and released her debut extended play (EP), Running with the Wolves, in 2015.
65. [2015] Kim Ju-yeon — In the autumn of 2015, Kim debuted as a theater actress, playing Yoo Hwa-yi, the female lead in Jang Jin's play Taxi Driver.
66. [2019] Ani DiFranco — DiFranco released a memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, on May 7, 2019, via Viking Books and made The New York Times Best Seller list.
67. [2019] Avicii — His third and final album, Tim (2019), was released posthumously and reached number one on the Billboard Top Dance Albums chart.
68. [2024] Joko Anwar — In 2024, Anwar's anthology series Joko Anwar's Nightmares and Daydreams was released on Netflix.
69. [2026] Sami Yusuf — As of 2026, he has released eight studio albums, five live albums and one compilation album.