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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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| 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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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and then defeats an Austrian and Russian army at Austerlitz | |
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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 |
| | | Francis II formally brings to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, to keep it from the clutches of Napoleon | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Beethoven's sixth symphony (the Pastoral) has its first performance in Vienna | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Klemens von Metternich becomes foreign minister to the Austrian emperor Francis II | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and defeats the Austrians in a battle at nearby Wagram | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Napoleon marries the Austrian archduchess Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor Francis I | |
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