Leopold Mozart was born
Beginning of the composer’s lifetime.
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Niccolao Manucci died
Niccolao Manucci was a Venetian writer, a self-taught physician, and traveller, who wrote accounts of the Mughal Empire as a first-hand witness. His work is considered to be one of the most useful foreign sources for the...
Manon Lescaut was published
The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman and a common woman. Their decision to live together without marriage is the st...
Sonata in G Minor, K. 30 was published
The Fugue in G minor by Domenico Scarlatti is a single-movement sonata for harpsichord, popularly known as the Cat fugue or Cat's fugue because, according to a legend, Scarlatti was inspired by his cat walking on the har...
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Thomas Jefferson was born
Thomas Jefferson was a Founding Father and the third president of the United States, serving from 1801 to 1809. A prolific writer and philosopher, Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. His...
Muzio Clementi was born
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was an Italian composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer who was mostly active in England. Encouraged to study mus...
American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. It began as a rebellion and turned into a revolution eventually creating the sovereign United States, which was the outcome of t...
The Barber of Seville was published
The Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by...
Don Giovanni was published
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as told by playwright Tirs...
Leopold Mozart died
End of the composer’s lifetime.