What happened July 1778 AD

After Mannheim, she had been unwell, complaining of a sore throat and ear infections, and while she was keen for them to move on, Leopold declined to countenance her return home, to recover there. Things quickly got worse in Paris. She began suffering from chills and a fever along with constant headaches and died on July 3.

On 12 June, his Symphony No. 31 in D — eventually nicknamed “The Paris Symphony” — newly written that month, was performed at the house of another local bigwig, Count Sickingen.

Louis XIV of France declared war on the Kingdom of Great Britain during the American Revolution.

Austrian composer and royal chaplain master Sigismund von Neukomm was born in Salzburg in 1778.