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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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| c. 1740 |
| | | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1741 |
| | | Venice's new theatre, the Teatro Novissimo, has machinery which can change the scenes in the blink of an eye | |
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| 1760 |
| | | A new theatre opens in Richmond, with a prologue written for the occasion by David Garrick | |
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| 1773 |
| | | Oliver Goldsmith's play She Stoops to Conquer is produced in London's Covent Garden theatre | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1775 |
| | | Figaro makes his first appearance on stage in Beaumarchais' The Barber of Seville | |
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| 1777 |
| | | Richard Brinsley Sheridan's second play, The School for Scandal, is an immediate success in London's Drury Lane theatre | |
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| 1782 |
| | | Friedrich von Schiller's youthful and anarchic play The Robbers causes a sensation when performed in Mannheim | |
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