Austrian nobility

Most of these meetings were set up by their father, Leopold Mozart, to get his children the recognition that they deserved. Some of the courts they visited were the Elector of Bavaria at Munich, the prince-bishop seat in Passau, Austrian Netherlands’ Habsburg princes, nobility in Milan (15). Other places on the Mozart family European tours, according to pg. 15 of Rosselli’s book, were Linz , Pressburg (now Bratislava), south and west Germany, Belgium, Paris, London, Holland, Burgundy, Geneva,…

The great social theorist and philosopher, Isaiah Berlin once stated, “Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.” In simpler terms, Berlin is saying that to cure injustice and poverty, men may use revolution and reform but they cannot “live only by fighting evils”, they must also live by…

Notably, the life of the brilliant Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is completely incredible unusual. His bright, generous talent and constant creativity resulted in absolutely amazing, one-of-a-kind contributions. Mozart lived only 36 years, but started his musical career at 6. In childhood, despite of the numerous concerts, he created a lot of works. In general, Mozart wrote 50 symphonies, 19 operas, sonatas, quartets, quintets and other works of various genres. Today, Mozart's…

became First Consul, (basically a senator with a great deal of power.) Soon, he was voted to become Emperor of France in 1804. The Allies declared war and for the next 5 years, the Napoleonic Wars would rock Europe. In 1809, Napoleon crushed the Austrian army and for 3 years, Europe would for the most part be in peace. War would still drag on between France against Spain, Britain and Portugal in the Iberian Peninsula. Napoleon had established the Continental System, a trade embargo between…

The nascent Ottoman Empire, founded by Osman I on the twenty-seventh of July, 1299 , existed in optimal conditions for expansion utilizing both conquest and diplomacy due to the status of propinquitous states: a derelict Byzantine Empire (as a direct consequence of the Fourth Crusade and the establishment of the Latin Kingdom) and various aggregate beyliks previously under the dominion of the expeditiously declining Seljuk Sultanate of Rûm. Osman I, entirely reliant upon Ghazi to facilitate his…

France was a strong country that had a strong military force but it’s biggest problem was the weak monarchy. The monarchs at the time were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She was an Austrian born queen of France, who was later overthrown and executed by guillotine. She was the daughter of the empress of Austria, Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor, Francis I. Marie Antoinette had a hard childhood due to the many death and adversities that happened to her at a young age. She had obtained an…

the influence of the Enlightenment on the U.S. thinkers. More closely, the effects of the Enlightenment included better education, advancements in science and mathematics, questions of religion beliefs, abolishment of slavery, ending absolutism and nobility privileges, and leading up to the American and French Revolutions. The words of the national song, Ça Ira!, offer insight on the effects: "We 'll string up the aristocrats!/ Despotism will die,/ Liberty will triumph/ "We will win, we will…

The Spanish government was forced to send a new governor to calm down the rioters. In 1502 he was released with most of the charges dropped but was stripped of all his nobility as well. Later that year Cristopher requested the king to fund one last trip across the Atlantic. He landed in Panama, but he was forced to head back to Spain early and leave two of the four boats he brought due to a vicious attack from the area’s…

Born on the Italian-turned-French island of Corsica in 1769, Napoleon showed interest in the military at a young age (Spielvogel). Born into a family that stemmed from Italian nobility, Napoleon received a royal scholarship to study at a military school in Brienne, France, at the age of eight. In 1784 he moved to the French military academy to study advanced strategies and tactics. At the age of sixteen he became a second lieutenant…

What forces were most important in determining the spread of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation? The reformation refers to the 16th-century movement for the reform of the Roman Catholic Church based on Martin Luther’s criticisms. The Catholic Church responded with the counter-reformation. This addressed some key criticism but retained central beliefs such as the intervening role of the clergy and saints in one’s relationship with God. In general, historians agree that the failures of…