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| 1782 |
| | | The English actress Sarah Siddons, already well known in the province, causes a sensation when she appears in London at Drury Lane | |
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| 1789 |
| | | US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Mozart's opera Così fan Tutte has its premiere in Vienna, in the court theatre of Joseph II | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Mozart's opera The Magic Flute has its premiere in Vienna in a popular theatre run by the librettist, Emanuel Shikaneder | |
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| 1794 |
| | | Goethe and Schiller become friends, and together create the movement known as Weimar classicism | |
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| 1824 |
| | | Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini moves to Paris, where he becomes director of the Théatre Italien | |
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| 1830 |
| | | Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Edmund Kean takes a lease on the theatre and acts here until his death in 1833 | |
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| 1836 |
| | | The Inspector General, a farce by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol satirising Russian offialdom, has tsar Nicholas I in the audience for the premiere | |
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| 1849 |
| | | An anti-British mob attacks the New York theatre where William Macready is appearing as Macbeth, leaving 22 dead and many injured | |
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