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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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| 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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