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| 1772 |
| | | Haydn's Farewell Symphony gives a subtle hint to his employer at Esterházy that it is time for the musicians to return home | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, now 25, leaves Salzburg to settle in Vienna | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories | |
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| 1781 |
| | | The reforming emperor Joseph II emancipates the serfs in the Habsburg territories | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Mozart and his friends perform for Haydn the Mozart quartets inspired by Haydn's 'Russian' quartets (op.33), which on publication are dedicated to him | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Mozart's Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna and then has a huge success in Prague | |
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| 1786 |
| | | The emperor Joseph II is reported to have told Mozart that his opera The Marriage of Figaro has 'too many notes' | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Mozart's opera Così fan Tutte has its premiere in Vienna, in the court theatre of Joseph II | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Joseph Haydn sets off for England, where impresario Johann Peter Salomon presents his London symphonies | |
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| 1791 |
| | | A stranger arrives in Vienna with a mysterious commission for Mozart to write a requiem mass, just months before the composer's death | |
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