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1746: Battle of Culloden |
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1751: Diderot, Encyclopédie, Vol. I |
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1755: Johnson, Dictionary |
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1759: Voltaire, Candide |
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1766: Drottningholm Court Theatre |
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1776: American Declaration of Independence |
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1783: First manned flight, in a hot-air balloon |
1788: Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. |
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1740: Frederick II (the Great) Elector of Prussia, King of Poland |
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1752: Benjamin Franklin & lightning / electricity |
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1759: British capture Quebec |
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1770: Capt. Cook in Botany Bay, Australia |
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1775: Battle of Bunker Hill |
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1781: British army surrenders at Yorktown |
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1774: Louis XVI becomes King of France. |
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War of the Austrian Succession |
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1748: Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle |
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Seven Years' War |
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1760: British capture Montreal |
1763: Treaties of Hubertsburg and Paris |
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American Revolution |
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1783: Treaty of Paris |
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1773: Burney, The Present State...in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces |
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1740: Grassineau, A Musical Dictionary |
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1768: J.-J. Rousseau, Dictionnaire de musique |
1771: Burney, The Present State of Music in France and Italy |
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1776: Burney, History I
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1665-1746 J.K.F. Fischer |
Fischer d. 1646 |
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1666-1747 Jean-Féry Rebel |
Rebel d. 1647 |
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1671-1751 Tomaso Albinoni |
Albinoni d. 1751 |
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1679-1745 Jan Dismas Zelenka |
Zelenka d. 1745 |
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1681-1764 Johann Mattheson |
Mattheson d. 1764 |
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1681-1767 Georg Philippe Telemann |
Telemann d. 1767 |
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1683-1764 Jean-Philippe Rameau |
Rameau d. 1764] |
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1684-1748 Johann Gottfried Walther |
[J.G. Walther d. 1748] |
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1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach |
J.S. Bach d. 1750 |
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1685-1757 Domenico Scarlatti |
D. Scarlatti d. 1757 |
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1685-1759 Georg Friedrich Händel |
Händel d. 1759 |
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1686-1750 Sylvius Leopold Weiss |
Weiss d. 1750 |
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1687-1762 Francesco Geminiani |
Geminiani d. 1762 |
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ca 1689-1755 Joseph Bodin de Boismortier |
Boismortier d. 1755 |
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1692-1770 Giuseppe Tartini |
Tartini d. 1770 |
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1695-1758 Johan Helmich Roman |
Roman d. 1758 |
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1695-1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli |
Locatelli d. 1764 |
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1697-1764 Jean-Marie Leclair |
Leclair d. 1764 |
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1697-1773 Johann Joachim Quantz |
Quantz d. 1773 |
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1699-1783 Johann Adolph Hasse |
Hasse d. 1783 |
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1701-1775 Giovanni Battista Sammartini |
Sammartini d. 1775 |
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1702/3-1771 Johann Gottlieb Graun |
J.G. Graun d. 1771 |
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1703/4-1759 Carl Heinrich Graun |
C.H. Graun d. 1759 |
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1706-1785 Baldassare Galuppi |
Galuppi d. 1785 |
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1707-1791 Pietro Domenico Paradisi |
Paradisi d. 1791 |
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1708-1776 Johann Adolph Scheibe |
Scheibe d. 1776 |
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1709-1770 Charles Avison |
Avison d. 1770 |
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1709-1795 Michel Corrette |
Corrette d. 1795 |
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1710-1778 Thomas Augustine Arne |
Arne d. 1778 |
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1710-1784 Wilhelm Friedemann Bach |
W.F. Bach d. 1784 |
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1710-1779 William Boyce |
Boyce d. 1779 |
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1714–1774 Niccolò Jommelli |
Jommelli d. 1774 |
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1714-1787 Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck |
Gluck d. 1787 |
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1714-1788 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach |
C.P.E. Bach d. 1788 |
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1717-1757 J.W.A. Stamitz |
J.W.A. Stamitz d. 1757 |
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1719-1787 Leopold Mozart |
L. Mozart d. 1787 |
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1723-1787 Carl Friedrich Abel |
Abel d. 1787 |
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1728-1800 Nicola Piccini |
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1729-1783 Antonio Soler |
Soler d. 1783 |
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1731-1799 František Xaver Dušek |
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1732-1809 Franz Joseph Haydn |
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1732-1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach |
J.C.F. Bach d. 1795 |
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1733-1800 Johann Christian Fischer |
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1734-1829 François-Joseph Gossec |
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1735-1782 Johann Christian Bach |
J.C. Bach d. 1782 |
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1736-1809 Johann Georg Albrectsberger |
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1739-1799 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf |
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1743-1805 Luigi Boccherini |
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1745-1801 Carl Stamitz |
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1745-1814 Charles Dibdin |
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1748-1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe |
Neefe d. 1798 |
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1749-1801 Domenico Cimarosa |
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1750-1792 Antonio Rosetti |
Rosetti d. 1792 |
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1750-1825 Antonio Salieri |
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1752-1814 Johann Friedrich Reichardt |
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1754-1812 Franz Anton Hoffmeister |
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1755-1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti |
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1756-1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
W.A. Mozart d. 1791 |
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1757-1831 Ignaz Joseph Pleyel |
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1760-1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek |
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1760-1831 Mateo Antonio Perez Albeniz |
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1760-1842 Luigi Carlo Zanobi Salvadore Maria Cherubini |
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1766-1803 Franz Xaver Süssmayr |
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1770-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven |
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1770-1836 Antonin Reicha |
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1776-1822 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman |
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1778-1837 Johann Nepomuk Hummel |
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1781-1829 Mauro Giuliani |
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1782-1837 John Field |
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1782-1840 Niccolò Paganini |
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1784-1859 Ludwig Spohr |
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1786-1832 Daniel Friedrich Rudolph Kuhlau |
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1786-1826 Carl Maria von Weber |
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1791-1864 Giacomo Meyerbeer |
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1791-1857 Carl Czerny |
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