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Rameau and his work
Subscriptions invited for Rameau's Code de musique pratique.
Rameau signs an exclusive contract with the Académie royale de musique in exchange for an annual pension of 1,500 livres.
Première of Les Surprises de l'Amour (second version), including the revival of Anacréon and the revival of Les Sybarites, at the Académie royale de musique.
Second revival of Hippolyte et Aricie at the Académie royale de musique.
Rameau and his period
Robert Damiens attempts to assassinate Louis XV.
Birth of the Comte d'Artois, future Charles X.
Death of Domenico Scarlatti in Madrid.
Haydn composes his first symphonies.
Francœur and (François) Rebel become directors of the Académie royale de musique.
Début at the Académie royale de musique of the singer Sophie Arnould (1740–1802).
Retirement of the singer Claude-Louis-Dominique de Chassé (1699–1786).
Première at Saint-Germain-en-Laye of Diderot's Le Fils naturel, ou Les Epreuves de la vertu.