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| 1709 |
| | | In a friendly keyboard contest in Rome between Handel and Domenico Scarlatti, the result is a draw – Handel being the winner on the organ and Scarlatti on the harpsichord | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1764 |
| | | English historian Edward Gibbon, sitting among ruins in Rome, conceives the idea of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | |
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| 1782 |
| | | Italian sculptor Antonio Canova sets up his studio in Rome and begins producing finely modelled nudes in the Greek style | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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| 1806 |
| | | French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Marie Louise gives birth to a boy, Napoleon's longed-for heir, to be known as the King of Rome | |
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| 1814 |
| | | The Jesuit Order is restored by Pius VII on his return to Rome | |
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| 1816 |
| | | Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville has its premiere in Rome | |
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