The earliest depictions of a transverse flute in Western culture come from Byzantium in the 10th century.
Between about 1050 and 1200 the troubadors appeared at the courts of Provence together with their most favoured instrument, the fiddle.
At the end of the 15th century the military flute becomes common again, particularly in the hands of Swiss mercenary troops and in combination with side drums. The flute and drum combinations quickly spread to Italy, France, the German lands, Spain, and Sweden together with new Swiss infantry techniques.
Flutes begin appearing in French and German opera and chamber music in the 1680s. Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera-ballet Le Triomphe de l'Amour (1681) first specifies Flûtes d'Allemagne.
The flute starts to become popular as a solo instrument and to acquire its own repertoire with Michel de Labarre's Pieces pour la flûte traversière avec la basse-continue (1702).
1860: Louis Dorus (1812-96) introduces the Boehm flute at the Paris Conservatoire and Louis Lot (1807-96) becomes its official supplier of flutes. Silver flutes become popular in Paris.
Wayman Carver (Chick Webb band) becomes the first well-known jazz flute specialist (1932). He is followed by many more during the 1950s.
German and English professional flutists begin to adapt to French-style playing with vibrato. The process continues until the 1970s.
Pre-1940 Boehm flutes are no longer used by mainstrem professional flutists, who now nearly all play the same "French model" flute, with in-line, perforated keys, B-foot, Cooper embouchure and Cooper scale. But by the late 1990s, wooden flutes have made a comeback in a new, Cooperized form.
Information from FluteHistory.com
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