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| 484 BC |
| | Aeschylus wins the prize for tragedy at the City Dionysia in Athens | |
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| 468 BC |
| | Sophocles wins the prize for tragedy in Athens, defeating Aeschylus in the competition | |
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| 454 BC |
| | Euripides enters the drama contest at the City Dionysia in Athens for the first time | |
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| 423 BC |
| | Socrates is now sufficiently prominent to be satirized in Clouds, a comedy by Aristophanes | |
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| c. 425 BC |
| | Aristophanes wins first prize in Athens for his comedy The Acharnians | |
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| c. 340 BC |
| | The theatre at Epidaurus is the earliest and best surviving example of a classical Greek stage and auditorium | |
| | Epidaurus, the theatre Fotofile CG
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| c. 185 BC |
| | Plautus and Terence, in the second and third century BC, create a Roman drama based on Greek originals | |
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| c. 1170 |
| | The first known mystery play, the Mystery of Adam, takes place outside a church somewhere in France | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours | |
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| 1374 |
| | Kanami and Zeami Motokiyo please the shogun with their theatrical performance, and his patronage begins the tradition of Japan's No theatre | |
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