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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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| 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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