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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