TIMELINE OF MOZART’S LIFE

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 1

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 2, 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