| Year | Events in Mozart’s Life | Mozart’s Age | Contemporary World Events |
| 1755 | Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary is published | ||
| 1756 | (January 27): Born in Salzburg | ||
| 1757 | 1 | The beginning of the British Empire in India William Blake Born |
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| 1758 | 2 | ||
| 1759 | 3 | Voltaire’sCandide | |
| 1760 | 4 | ||
| 1761 | Earliest compositions | 5 | |
| 1762 | Started first sonata Travels in Munich where he and his sister perform for Bavarian Elector Maximilian III Joseph |
6 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Social Contract |
| 1763 | Travels include Ulm, Brussels, Frankfort, Cologne, Paris | 7 | |
| 1764 | First symphony | 8 | |
| 1765 | 9 | Invention of the steam engine | |
| 1766 | First public performance of one of his symphonies | 10 | |
| 1767 | 11 | ||
| 1768 | 12 | ||
| 1769 | 13 | ||
| 1770 | 14 | William Wordsworth born Ludvig van Beethoven born |
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| 1771 | 15 | ||
| 1772 | 16 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge born | |
| 1773 | 17 | Boston Tea Party Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (drama) |
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| 1774 | 18 | Goethe writes The Sorrows of Werther | |
| 1775 | 19 | Jane Austen born Sarah Siddons appears for the first time at Drury Lane, London |
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| 1776 | 20 | Declaration of Independence Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations |
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| 1777 | Travels in Munich, Mannheim, and Paris with Mother | 21 | |
| 1778 | Mother dies | 22 | |
| 1779 | Court organist for Archbishop of Salzburg | 23 | |
| 1780 | 24 | ||
| 1781 | 25 | British defeated at Yorktown | |
| 1782 | Marries Constanze Weber Die Entführung aus dem Serail |
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| 1783 | Raimund Leopold, Mozart’s first child, born (dies a year later) | 27 | Treaty of Paris (British recognition of American independence) |
| 1784 | Karl Thomas, Mozart’s second child born | 28 | |
| 1785 | 29 | ||
| 1786 | Le nozze di Figaro Johann Thomas Leopold, third child, born (dies shortly after) |
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| 1787 | Eine kleine Nachtmusik Theresia, fourth child, born (dies a year later) Father dies |
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| 1788 | 32 | ||
| 1789 | Anna Maria, fifth child, born and dies Franz Xavier Wolfgang, sixth child, born |
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| 1790 | 34 | ||
| 1791 | Die Zauberflöte Requiem in d minor (unfinished) (December 5): Dies in Vienna |
35 | Storming of the Bastille William Blake writes “Song of Innocence” |
| 1792 | Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France Mary Wollstonescraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
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| 1793 | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man Bill of Rights is ratified Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed and the Reign of Terror begins |