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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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| 1809 |
| | | The destruction of Drury Lane Theatre lights up the night sky | |
|  | Drury Lane Theatre on fire, Pether (detail)
Guildhall Art Gallery
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| 1812 |
| | | Today's Drury Lane Theatre opens | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Edmund Kean gives his snuff box to an admirer, as a souvenir of his Richard III | |
|  | Kean's snuff box, showing him as Richard III
Museum of Richmond
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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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