Due, however, to their satiric and overtly liberal political inclinations, both operas were seen as unsuitable for public performance in the politically reactive cultures of Leopold II and later Francis II.

For example, when Salieri was appointed Kapellmeister in 1788 he revived Figaro instead of bringing out a new opera of his own ; and when he went to the coronation festivities for Leopold II in 1790 he had no fewer than three Mozart masses in his luggage.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

In Florence on 8 September 1787 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 18 October 1787 ( in person ), Anton married a second time with the Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria ( Maria Theresia Josephe Charlotte Johanna ), daughter of the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany, later Emperor Leopold II.

Category: Grand Officers of the Order of Leopold II

The Congo Free State was a corporate state privately controlled by Leopold II, King of the Belgians through the Association Internationale Africaine, a non-governmental organization.

By 1908 public and diplomatic pressure led Leopold II to the annex the Congo as the Belgian Congo colony.

From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.

The first organized Congolese troops, known as the ( FP ), were created in 1888 when King Leopold II of Belgium, who held the Congo Free State as his private property, ordered his Secretary of the Interior to create military and police forces for the state.

* 1909 – Leopold II of Belgium ( b. 1835 )

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

With Leopold I's interests now focused on Spain and the imminent death of Charles II, the Emperor terminated the conflict with the Sultan, and signed the Treaty of Karlowitz on 26 January 1699.

* 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.

Meanwhile, a new threat arose from abroad: Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Frederick William II of Prussia, and the King's brother Charles-Philippe, comte d ' Artois, issued the Declaration of Pillnitz, which considered the cause of Louis XVI as their own, demanded his absolute liberty and implied an invasion of France on his behalf if the revolutionary authorities refused its conditions.

The Austrian emperor Leopold II, brother of Marie Antoinette, may have wished to avoid war, but he died on 1 March 1792.

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor and his family.

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

On the foreign affairs front, in the Declaration of Pillnitz of August 1791, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, Count Charles of Artois, and King Frederick William II of Prussia made Louis XVI's cause their own.

* 1870 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany ( b. 1797 )

In late 1217 Andrew II of Hungary and Leopold VI, Duke of Austria arrived in Acre and, along with John of Brienne, raided territory further inland, including Mount Tabor, but without success.

* 1747 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1792 )

The man was King Leopold 2, of the Belgians, who in 1885 concluded that he had better grab a colony while the grabbing was still good.

Leopold was born in 1887 and educated at Yale University.

Leopold believed that harm was frequently done to natural systems out of a sense of ownership and this idea eclipsed community.

The Dowager Queen Constance was anxious for her son's life and she escaped with King Ladislaus to the court of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria.

As a student of Florian Leopold Gassmann, and a protégé of Gluck, Salieri was a cosmopolitan composer who wrote operas in three languages.

It was through Pacini that Salieri gained the attention of the composer Florian Leopold Gassmann, who, impressed with his talents and concerned for his future, took the young orphan to Vienna where he personally directed and paid for the remainder of his musical education.

Leopold was the sole shareholder and chairman.

The melody of the Deutschlandlied was originally adapted by Joseph Haydn in 1797 to provide music to the poem " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser " (" God save Franz the Emperor ") by Lorenz Leopold Haschka.

Although the term " dominatrix " was not used, the classic example in literature of the female dominant-male submissive relationship is portrayed in the 1870 novella Venus in Furs by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.

He found her a publisher, and her book was reviewed by Aldo Leopold, Joseph Grinnell, and Jean Delacour.

The historic emphasis and poetic naturalist writings for protection was on wild places, from notable ecologists in the history of conservation biology, such as Aldo Leopold and Arthur Tansley, were far removed from urban centres where the concentration of pollution and environmental degradation is located.

The word ' ester ' was coined in 1848 by German chemist Leopold Gmelin, probably as a contraction of the German Essigäther-acetic ether.

By May 1683 the Ottoman threat to Emperor Leopold I's capital, Vienna, was very real.

It was at Leopold I's camp where Eugene arrived in mid-August.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the monarchy at the point of complete financial breakdown Leopold I was at last persuaded to change the government.

Also important was forester and ecologist Aldo Leopold, one of the founders of the Wilderness Society in 1935, who wrote a classic of nature observation and ethical philosophy, A Sand County Almanac, published in 1949.

Leopold was, from 1765 to 1790, the Grand duke | Grand Duke of Tuscany

In 2008, The Library of America selected deFord ’ s story of the Leopold and Loeb trial for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime.

After two centuries of war against the nearby major power, the Republic of Venice ( which occupied it briefly from 1369 to 1372 ), the main citizens of Trieste petitioned Leopold III of Habsburg, Duke of Austria to become part of his domains.

This soon turned out to be a difficult task as he had to face the superior Austrian forces, whose main army of 54, 000 troops was led by Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine and Count Leopold Joseph von Daun.

The main army of nearly 20, 000 followed a day later under Prince Leopold of Anhalt.

The wife of main character Leopold Bloom, she roughly corresponds to Penelope in the Odyssey.

The main contributors to the development of NATM were Ladislaus von Rabcewicz, Leopold Müller and Franz Pacher.

University City of Bogotá: Map by Leopold Rother and Erich Lange, 1937. The University City of Bogotá (), also known as the White City (), is the main campus for the University.

A security blanket was also featured quite prominently and used by main character, Leopold Bloom, portrayed by Gene Wilder in the 1968 Mel Brooks comedy The Producers, and its subsequent, 2005 musical remake The Producers in which the character is played by Matthew Broderick.

It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous battle of Sempach ( 9 July 1386 ), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life.

For example, Robert Haas inserted one quiet, solemn passage in his edition of the 1890 score which restored a cut between two loud passages ( before the main climax of the movement ), whereas in the Leopold Nowak edition these two loud passages are joined.

On 30 November 1715 Leopold was declared of age and began his personal rule over Anhalt-Köthen ; on 14 May 1716 he formally took possession of the Schloss ( main residence ).

A main inspiration for the book was Franz Leopold Neumann's book Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism in 1942, a study of how Nazism came into a position of power in a democratic state like Germany.

The highway provides the main route to Leopold which is located on the highway, and Ocean Grove which is located to the south.

In James Joyce's Ulysses, the main character Leopold Bloom thinks briefly ( and incompletely ) of a lyric Bunn wrote: " Whose smile upon each feature plays with such and such replete ”.