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Events 1790s – The Vancouver Expedition

18th Century

1791 – 1795 – The Vancouver Expedition  Events 1791: Suppression of the Liège Revolution by Austrian forces and re-establishment of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. 1791–1795: George Vancouver explores the world during the Vancouver Expedition. 1791–1804: The Haitian Revolution. 1791: Mozart premieres The Magic Flute. 1792–1802: The French Revolutionary Wars lead into the Napoleonic Wars, which last from 1803–1815. 1792: The New York Stock & Exchange Board is founded. 1792: Polish–Russian War of 1792. 1792: Margaret Ann Neve (1792–1903) would become the first recorded female supercentenarian to reach the age of 110. 1793: Upper Canada bans slavery. 1793: The largest yellow fever epidemic in American history kills as many as 5,000 people in Philadelphia, roughly 10% of the population. 1793–1796: Revolt in the Vendée against the French Republic […]

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1791 Wagner: The Magic Flute

Music

The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form during the time it was written that included both singing and spoken dialogue. The work premiered on 30 September 1791 at Schikaneder’s theatre, the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, just two months before the composer’s premature death. Still a staple of the opera repertory, its popularity was reflected by two immediate sequels, Peter Winter‘s Das Labyrinth oder Der Kampf mit den Elementen. Der Zauberflöte zweyter Theil (1798) […]

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The Year 1791 in Music

Classical, Music, With Docu

1791 was a year of great political change: Louis XVI was beheaded in France; the US Congress adopted the Bill of Rights and the Constitution; and the ideas of Rousseau and the Enlightenment were all pervasive. It was also the year in which Mozart wrote his enigmatic opera ‘The Magic Flute’ and his renowned Requiem and then died. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the commissioning of the latter work led to the myth that the composer had been murdered.

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November 16 in 1776, just months after the United States declared its independence, the US-flagged vessel Andrew Doria sailed into Sint Eustatius. The governor of the Dutch-ruled island ordered a cannon salute, and in doing so The Netherlands became the first country to officially recognize the flag of the new United States.

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