| 1585 | Heinrich Schütz is born on October 8 in Köstritz, his name entered in the regional baptismal record on October 9 |
| 1586 | Andrea Gabrieli dies
Johann Hermann Schein born |
| 1587 | Samuel Scheidt born |
| 1590 | Christoph Schütz takes over the inn "Zum goldenen Ring" in Weißenfels.
The family moves to Weißenfels. |
| 1598 | Landgrave Moritz of Hessen-Kassel discovers Heinrich Schütz in Weißenfels |
| 1599 | Heinrich Schütz goes to Kassel: Training as choirboy and education at the court school "Mauritianum" |
| 1600 | Giordano Bruno burned as a heretic in Rome |
| 1607 | First performance Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo" in Mantua |
| 1608 | Schütz studies law in Marburg |
| 1609 | Schütz receives a stipend from Moritz of Hessen to travel to Italy for music studies with Giovanni Gabrieli in Venice |
| 1610 | Galileo Galilei demonstrates in Venice a newly designed telescope which permits the detail
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