THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

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  • The piano- Music

    Cristofori was dissatisfied with the lack of control that the musicians had over the volume level of the harpsichord. He is credited for changing out the hammer-striking mechanism to create the modern piano

  • The Beginning of the Classical Period

    On July 12, 1730 Lorenzo Corsini is elected pope and takes the name of Clement XII.

  • The "Enciclopedia"- Cultural

    The Encyclopédie was a knowledge systematization project that brought together some of the best intellectuals of its time, with the intention of disseminating the principles of universality, truth, humanity, autonomy of reason, and secularism.
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    Leandro Fernández de Moratín- Music

    He was a Spanish playwright and poet, the most important neoclassical playwright of the Spanish 18th century
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    The American War of Independence- Cultural

    was a conflict that pitted the thirteen original British colonies in North America against the Kingdom of Great Britain

  • Carlos IV was born-Politic

    He was born in the Escorial, and he became an important king of Spain.
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    The French revolution- Politic

    The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence

  • The End of the Classical period

    In 1820, Spain and the Constitution of 1812 became the model for European revolutionaries