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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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| 1861 |
| | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1865 |
| | English surgeon Joseph Lister introduces the era of antiseptic surgery, with the use of carbolic acid in the operating theatre | |
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| 1865 |
| | On a visit to a Washington theatre, Lincoln is assassinated in his box by John Wilkes Booth | |
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| 1865 |
| | Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre | |
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| 1871 |
| | English actor Henry Irving plays what becomes one of his most famous parts, that of Mathias in the melodrama The Bells | |
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| 1875 |
| | Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt has its premiere in Oslo, with incidental music by Edvard Grieg | |
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| 1879 |
| | Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House signals a new direction in drama in its frank treatment of tensions within a marriage | |
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