| OPERA | BALLET/DANCE | PLAY | |
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| 1868 | |||
| 1869 | Wiener Staatsoper established | ||
| 1870 | Saint-Léon “Coppélia” first performed | ||
| 1871 | Verdi “Aida” first performed | ||
| 1872 | |||
| 1873 | |||
| 1874 | Johann Strauss II “Die Fledermaus” first performed | ||
| 1875 | Opéra National de Paris (Palais Garnier) established Bizet “Carmen” first performed |
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| 1876 | Bayreuther Festspielhaus established Wagner “Der Ring des Nibelungen” all four parts first performed |
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| 1877 | Reisinger “Swan Lake” first performed | ||
| 1878 | |||
| 1879 | Ibsen “A Doll's House” first performed | ||
| 1880 | |||
| 1881 | |||
| 1882 | |||
| 1883 | Metropolitan Opera House, New York established | ||
| 1884 | |||
| 1885 | |||
| 1887 | André Antoine founds Théâtre-Libre in Paris | ||
| 1888 | |||
| 1889 | |||
| 1890 | Petipa “The Sleeping Beauty” first performed | Ibsen “Hedda Gabler” first performed | |
| 1891 | |||
| 1892 | Leoncavallo “Pagliacci” first performed | Ivanov “The Nutcracker” first performed | |
| 1893 | |||
| 1894 | Oscar Wilde “Salomé” first performed | ||
| 1895 | Petipa, Ivanov “Swan Lake” (revival version) first performed | ||
| 1896 | Puccini “La bohème” first performed | Chekhov “The Seagull” first performed | |
| 1897 | |||
| 1898 | Moscow Arts Theatre founded, “The Seagull” performed | ||
| 1899 | |||
| 1900 | Isadora Duncan starts to perform in Europe | Public performance by Sadayakko and KAWAKAMI Otojiro at the 1900 Paris Exposition | |
| 1901 | |||
| 1902 | Gorky “The Lower Depths” first performed | ||
| 1903 | Moscow Arts Theatre “The Cherry Orchard” first performed, Chekhov deceased Irish National Theatre Society founded |
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| 1904 | Puccini “Madama Butterfly” first performed | ||
| 1905 | Hanako performs at the Savoy Theatre, London | ||
| 1906 | Travelling theatre company the Bandman Opera Company's first visit to Japan | Ibsen deceased | |
| 1907 | Fokine “The Dying Swan” (starring Pavlova) first performed | ||
| 1908 | |||
| 1909 | "Russian Season" held at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (1st Ballets Russes public performance) | ||
| 1910 | Marius Petipa deceased | ||
| 1911 | Richard Strauss “Der Rosenkavalier” first performed |