 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1761 |
| | | Austrian physician Joseph Leopold Auenbrugger describes his new diagnostic technique – percussion, or listening to a patient's chest and tapping | |
| |
|
| 1762 |
| | | The intensely dramatic music of Gluck's Orfeo ed Eurydice introduces a much needed reform in the conventions of opera | |
| |
|
| 1762 |
| | | 6-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart plays for the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa | |
| |
|
| 1763 |
| | | The Treaty of Hubertusburg, between Prussia and Austria, increases the power of Prussia among the many separate states of Germany | |
| |
|
| 1763 |
| | | 7-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins a three-year concert tour of Europe | |
| |
|
| 1764 |
| | | Joseph Haydn's first published work is six string quartets, a form which he subsequently makes very much his own | |
| |
|
| 1772 |
| | | Russia, Prussia and Austria agree a treaty enabling them to divide the spoils in the first partition of Poland | |
| |
|
| 1772 |
| | | Haydn's Farewell Symphony gives a subtle hint to his employer at Esterházy that it is time for the musicians to return home | |
| |
|
| 1781 |
| | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, now 25, leaves Salzburg to settle in Vienna | |
| |
|
| 1781 |
| | | Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |