The Internationale/Timeline
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The following events are divided by countries and areas speaking different languages with dates in ISO 8601 formats.
| Year | French-related event | Russian-related event | English-related event | Chinese-related event |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1816 | Eugène Pottier (dies in 1887) is born. | |||
| 1848 | Pierre De Geyter (dies in 1932) is born. | |||
| 1860 | Charles Hope Kerr (dies in 1944) is born. | |||
| 1871 | Eugène Pottier writes in June the original French words of The Internationale, to be sung to the tune of La Marseillaise. | |||
| 1872 | Arkady Yakovlevich Kots (dies in 1943) is born. | |||
| 1887 | Eugène Pottier (born in 1816) dies. | |||
| 1888 | Pierre De Geyter sets the music of The Internationale, which is first publicly performed in July. | |||
| 1899 | Qu Qiubai (dies in 1935) is born. | |||
| 1900 | Charles Hope Kerr makes the USA lyrics. | |||
| 1902 | Arkady Yakovlevich Kots makes the initial Russian translation. | |||
| 1904 | Pierre De Geyter's brother Adolphe is induced by the Lille mayor Gustave Delory to claim copyright. | |||
| 1908 | Shen Baoji (dies in 2002) is born. | |||
| 1914 | Pierre De Geyter loses the first copyright lawsuit. | |||
| 1916 | Adolphe De Geyter hangs himself and confesses the false copyright claim in a letter to Pierre. | |||
| 1918 | The Russian SFSR adopts The Internationale as the national anthem. | |||
| 1922 | Pierre De Geyter wins the copyright lawsuit with the letter from Adolphe as new evidence. | The Soviet Union adopts The Internationale as the de facto national anthem. | ||
| 1923 | Qu Qiubai translates on June 15 The Internationale from Russian to Chinese. | |||
| 1926 | The National Revolutionary Army of China prints on March 18 a music sheet with three lyrics of The Internationale in Chinese. | |||
| 1927 | Pierre De Geyter is invited to Moscow, Soviet Russia for the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, as the Soviet leaders discover his real authorship. | |||
| 1931 | The Chinese Soviet Republic decides its national anthem to be The Internationale. | |||
| 1932 | Pierre De Geyter (born in 1848) dies. | |||
| 1935 | Qu Qiubai (born in 1899) is executed by Kuomintang. | |||
| 1943 | Arkady Yakovlevich Kots (born in 1872) dies. | |||
| 1944 | The Soviet Union changes its national anthem from The Internationale to Hymn of the Soviet Union. | Charles Hope Kerr (born in 1860) dies. | ||
| 1957 | Billy Bragg (living) is born. | Shen Baoji makes a complete Chinese translation of The Internationale from French. | ||
| 1989 | In the People's Republic of China, protesters sing The Internationale in the Tiananmen Square protests. | |||
| 1990 | Billy Bragg composes the modern English lyrics of The Internationale. | |||
| 2002 | Shen Baoji (born in 1908) dies. | |||
| 2005 | Le Chant du Monde administering the copyright asks Pierre Merejkowsky, the film director and an actor of Insurrection / résurrection, to pay 1000 euro for whistling The Internationale for seven seconds. | |||
| 2007 | The French Supreme Court confirms in February the musical copyright extensions for both world wars based on a 1985 law in addition to life plus 70 years until year end. | |||
| 2008 | Billy Bragg's modern English version has a copyright permission logged at Wikimedia OTRS, but not compatible with GFDL as commercial use is limited. | |||
| 2017 | The Internationale melody is expected in October to enter the public domain in France through copyright expiration. |
