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| 1800 |
| | | Beethoven seeks medical advice for a very alarming condition, an increasing deafness | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Nelson and the Hamiltons visit Haydn, who composes a cantata on the Battle of the Nile for Emma Hamilton to sing | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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| 1802 |
| | | At Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, Beethoven writes a letter, to be read only after his death, confronting the tragedy of his inexorable decline into deafness | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Beethoven changes the dedication of his third symphony on hearing that his hero, Napoleon, has made himself an emperor | |
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| 1805 |
| | | The first version of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is performed in Vienna under the title Leonore | |
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| 1806 |
| | | French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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| 1808 |
| | | An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Beethoven's sixth symphony (the Pastoral) has its first performance in Vienna | |
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