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1864 CE - 1949 CE: Life of the German composer Richard Strauss.
1864 CE: The composer Richard Strauss is born in Munich, Germany.
1885 CE: Richard Strauss becomes the assistant and then principal conductor of the Meiningen orchestra.
1886 CE: Richard Strauss takes up a conducting post at the Munich court opera.
1894 CE: Richard Strauss marries the soprano singer Pauline de Ahna.
1894 CE: Richard Strauss' first opera Guntram is a failure.
1896 CE: The premiere of Richard Strauss' symhponic poem Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
1897 CE: Richard Strauss' son Franz is born.
1905 CE: The premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Salome.
1909 CE: The premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Elektra.
1911 CE: the premiere of Richard Strauss' opera Der Rosenkavalier.
1915 CE: Richard Struass composes his symphonic poem Ein Alpensinfonie.
1936 CE: Richard Strauss composes the score for a Nazi film on the Berlin Olympics.
1942 CE: The premiere of Richard Strauss' final opera Capriccio.
1948 CE: Richard Strauss composes his Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs).
1949 CE: The composer Richard Strauss dies at his home in Garmisch.