TIMELINE OF MOZART’S LIFE
1751 — Wolfie’s sister, Nannerl, is born
1756 — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born January 27, in Salzburg, Austria
1759 — Wolfie learns to play the clavier at age three
1760 — Wolfie composes his very first melodies
1762 — Wolfie teaches himself to play the violin; Wolfie and Nannerl are invited to play for Empress Maria Theresa in Vienna
1763 — Wolfie and Nannerl perform in Germany, Belgium, France, and England; the artist Lorenzoni paints the children’s portraits
1765 — Wolfie composes his first symphony, Symphony in E-flat, while in England
1768 — Wolfie writes his first opera
1770 — Mozart hears Allegri’s Miserere at the St. Peter’s Cathedral and writes it out from memory
1777 — Mozart falls in love with Aloysia Weber
1778 — Mozart writes the Paris Symphony; Mozart’s mother Maria Anna dies
1780 — Mozart is commissioned to write the opera Idomeneo, King of Crete
1782 — Mozart marries Constanze Weber
1784 — Mozart’s son Karl Thomas is born
1786 — The Marriage of Figaro opens at the Grand Opera House in Vienna
1787 — Mozart composes Don Giovanni; Papa Leopold dies
1791 — Mozart’s son Franz Xaver is born; Mozart writes The Magic Flute, a mysterious stranger delivers a letter to Mozart commissioning a requiem; Mozart dies on December 5
TIMELINE OF THE WORLD
French and Indian War begins — 1754
Lisbon (Portugal) Earthquake kills 30,000 people — 1755
The modern sandwich is created by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich — 1762
John Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny, making it possible to weave raw fibers into thread faster than ever before — 1764
Mapmaker John Spilsbury creates the first jigsaw puzzle — 1767
James Watts patents the steam engine — 1769
Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI of France — 1770
The first edition of Encyclopedia Britannica is published — 1771
The waltz becomes a fashionable dance in Vienna — 1773
American Revolution begins; Daniel Boone begins clearing the Wilderness Road into Kentucky — 1775
James Cook discovers Hawaii — 1778
Astronomer Frederick William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus — 1781
The first successful hot-air balloon flight is recorded in Paris — 1783
Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal glasses — 1784
The Pennsylvania Quakers emancipate their slaves — 1788
The French Revolution begins; George Washington is elected president of the United States — 1789 |