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| 1637 |
| | | The first public opera house, the Teatro San Cassiano, opens in Venice | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love | |
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| c. 1650 |
| | | Japan's popular theatre, kabuki, develops as a form of café entertainment | |
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| 1653 |
| | | The 14-year-old Louis XIV dances in a court ballet as Apollo, wearing a glorious sun costume, and finds that he likes the role | |
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| 1661 |
| | | Louis XIV establishes a royal dancing academy and soon follows it with a music academy | |
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| 1667 |
| | | French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love | |
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| 1673 |
| | | Molière falls fatally ill when acting in his own play Le Malade Imaginaire | |
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| 1681 |
| | | A professional ballet company in Paris introduces female dancers and the world's first prima ballerina, Mlle de Lafontaine | |
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| 1689 |
| | | Young gentlewomen in Chelsea give the first performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas | |
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| 1698 |
| | | A maker of harpsichords in Florence, Bartolomeo Cristofori, develops the piano ('soft') and forte ('loud') feature which leads to the piano | |
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