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Births

3 January: JOSINA VAN AERSSEN = Dutch composer, painter, lady in waiting and noble = [died: 1797]
17 January: THOMAS LINLEY the elder = English tenor and musician = [died: 1795]
28 October: FRANZ IGNAZ VON BEECKE = German composer = [died: 1803]
29 October: GOTTFRIED VAN SWIETEN = Dutch-Austrian collaborator of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven = [died: 1803]

Timeline of Events

2 July: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH performs a revised version of his Magnificat in D major, BWV 243, ending the mourning period for Augustus II the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
10 July: GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL premieres his English-language oratorio Athalia at the University of Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre.

THOMAS ARNE's first opera, Rosamund, is staged, with his sister, SUSANNAH MARIA, performing.
First opera staged at the Nobile Teatro di San Giacomo di Corfù, A. AURELLI’s Gerone, tiranno di Siracusa.
WILHELM FRIEDEMANN BACH is appointed organist of the Sophienkirche, Dresden.
JEAN-MARIE LECLAIR becomes musical director to King Louis XV of France.
CHARLES THEODORE PACHELBEL settles in Boston, Massachusetts.
After 1733: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH makes the Leipzig premiere of the Passion cantata Ein lämmlein geht und trägt die Schuld by CARL HEINRICH GRAUN.