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The Magic Flute
A Selected Cultural and Historical Timeline
1764 1766 1770 1775 1776
The Declaration of Independence is
approved July 4 by the Continental
Congress.
Eight-year-old Mozart writes his first
symphony.
Ten-year-old Mozart writes his first opera.
On May 16, Marie Antoinette, the
fourteen-year-old daughter of Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria (upon whom
some say the Queen of the Night in
The Magic Flute is modeled) marries
fifteen-year-old Louis-Auguste, the
future King Louis XVI of France.
On March 23, Patrick Henry gives his “Give
Me Liberty or Give Me Death” to
the Virginia Convention.
On April 19, the Battles of Lexington and
Concord begin the American Revolution.