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The Magic Flute
A Selected Cultural and Historical Timeline
1751 1752 1756 1762 1763
Emanuel Schikaneder born
September 1, in Straubing in Bavaria.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born January
27, in Salzburg, Austria.
Benjamin Franklin invents
the lightning rod. Mozart performs at the Imperial Court in
Vienna at age 6.
By Maia Morgan
Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes
The Social Contract, one of the most
famous books to emerge from the
Enlightenment. It begins with the
provocative line: “Man is born free, but
today he is everywhere in chains.”
The Mason-Dixon line drawn.