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List of musical events
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This page indexes the individual year in music pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
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2000s
- 2007 in music, 2007 in music (UK) -
- 2006 in music, 2006 in music (UK) -
- 2005 in music, 2005 in music (UK) - Oasis releases Don't Believe the Truth
- 2004 in music, 2004 in music (UK) - Dave Grohl releases PROBOT, Loretta Lynn releases Van Lear Rose , Kanye West, The College Dropout, Stephen Sondheim, Assassins
- 2003 in music, 2003 in music (UK) - Michael Jackson arrested
- 2002 in music, 2002 in music (UK) - Eminem releases his third album, Eminem Show
- 2001 in music, 2001 in music (UK) - Napster's popularity peaks
- 2000 in music, 2000 in music (UK) - The Beatles release the greatest hits collection 1
1990s
- 1999 in music, 1999 in music (UK) - Red Hot Chili Peppers release Californication
- 1998 in music, 1998 in music (UK) - The Offspring release Americana
- 1997 in music - Radiohead release Ok Computer
- 1996 in music - Death of Tupac Shakur
- 1995 in music - Alanis Morissette releases Jagged Little Pill
- 1994 in music - Kurt Cobain is found dead
- 1993 in music - Tool release Undertow
- 1992 in music - Dr. Dre releases The Chronic
- 1991 in music - Nirvana release Nevermind
- 1990 in music - Public Enemy releases Fear Of A Black Planet
1980s
- 1989 in music - The Ramones release Brain Drain
- 1988 in music - Jane's Addiction release Nothing's Shocking
- 1987 in music - U2 release The Joshua Tree
- 1986 in music - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens
- 1985 in music - Live Aid concert raises money for African famine relief
- 1984 in music - Tina Turner releases Private Dancer
- 1983 in music - Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney record "Say, Say, Say"
- 1982 in music - Michael Jackson releases Thriller
- 1981 in music - MTV first airs
- 1980 in music - John Lennon is murdered
1970s
- 1979 in music - The Clash releases London Calling
- 1978 in music - Sony introduce the Walkman
- 1977 in music - Elvis Presley dies
- 1976 in music - The Ramones release their first record Ramones
- 1975 in music - Bruce Springsteen releases Born to Run
- 1974 in music - Jackson Browne releases Late for the Sky
- 1973 in music - Pink Floyd releases Dark Side of the Moon
- 1972 in music - Deep Purple releases Machine Head
- 1971 in music - Rod Stewart releases Every Picture Tells a Story, containing his breakthrough hit "Maggie May".
- 1970 in music - Simon & Garfunkel release Bridge Over Troubled Water
1960s
- 1969 in music - Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York
- 1968 in music - Jimi Hendrix releases Electric Ladyland
- 1967 in music - The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 1966 in music - The Beach Boys release Pet Sounds
- 1965 in music - The Beatles play Shea Stadium
- 1964 in music - Roy Orbison releases "Oh, Pretty Woman'", the fastest selling single in history
- 1963 in music - Surfin' U.S.A. released by The Beach Boys
- 1962 in music - Dee Dee Sharp releases Mashed Potato Time
- 1961 in music - Hello Mary Lou released by Ricky Nelson
- 1960 in music - "Cathy's Clown" is a hit for The Everly Brothers
1950s
- 1959 in music - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, The Big Bopper die in plane crash
- 1958 in music - Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great balls of fire"
- 1957 in music - John Coltrane releases Blue Train
- 1956 in music - Elvis Presley has a hit with "Hound dog"
- 1955 in music - "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and his Comets is played over the titles of the film "The Blackboard Jungle", kicking off the Rock and Roll era
- 1954 in music - Frank Sinatra releases his "In The Wee Small Hours" album
- 1953 in music - "I Believe" by Frankie Laine sets the U.K.'s all-time record for weeks at number one on the charts
- 1952 in music - Georgia Gibbs scores her biggest hit with "Kiss Of Fire"
- 1951 in music - Johnnie Ray tops the charts with the double-sided smash single Cry/The Little White Cloud That Cried
- 1950 in music - Al Jolson dies
1940s
- 1949 in music - Mitch Miller begins his career as one of the century's most successful record producers at Mercury
- 1948 in music - 331/3 RPM LPs introduced
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- 1946 in music - Frank Sinatra releases Voice of Frank Sinatra
- 1945 in music - Glenn Miller's album Glenn Miller is released.
- 1944 in music - Glenn Miller dies
- 1943 in music - Oklahoma! opens on Broadway
- 1942 in music - Bing Crosby releases "White Christmas"
- 1941 in music - Les Paul builds the first solid-body electric guitar
- 1940 in music - Walt Disney releases Fantasia
1930s
- 1939 in music - Charlie Christian's musical career begins
- 1938 in music - Pete Seeger's musical career begins
- 1937 in music - Hank Williams' and Sonny Boy Williamson's musical careers begin
- 1936 in music - Tony Bennett's and Nat King Cole's musical careers begin
- 1935 in music - Frank Sinatra's and Ella Fitzgerald's musical career begins
- 1934 in music - Sun Ra's and Django Reinhardt's musical careers begin
- 1933 in music - Billie Holliday's musical career begins
- 1932 in music - Johnny Cash and Petula Clark are born
- 1931 in music - Roy Rogers' musical career begins
- 1930 in music - Bukka White begins performing
1920s
- 1929 in music - Cab Calloway's, and Gene Autry's musical careers begin
- 1928 in music - Louis Armstrong records "West End Blues", Burt Bacharach is born
- 1927 in music - Carter Family make first recordings
- 1926 in music - Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers begin recording
- 1925 in music - Big record labels begin using electric microphones for recording
- 1924 in music - Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres
- 1923 in music - Bessie Smith, King Oliver, many other African American artists begin recording
- 1922 in music - Ravel orchestrates Pictures at an Exhibition
- 1921 in music - Enrico Caruso dies
- 1920 in music - Mamie Smith has Blues recording hit
1910s
- 1919 in music - Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings jazz to the UK
- 1918 in music - Ella Fitzgerald, Leonard Bernstein born
- 1917 in music - First Jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band
- 1916 in music - Charles Ives' 4th Symphony
- 1915 in music - Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"
- 1914 in music - First calypso music recordings
- 1913 in music - near-riot at premiere of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
- 1912 in music - W.C. Handy publishes "The Memphis Blues"
- 1911 in music - Scott Joplin's ragtime opera, "Treemonisha".
- 1910 in music - Mahler's "Symphony No. 8"
1900s
- 1909 in music - Benny Goodman born
- 1908 in music - Mahler's 7th; Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- 1907 in music - Cab Calloway born
- 1906 in music - Little Brother Montgomery born
- 1905 in music - Franz Lehár The Merry Widow premieres
- 1904 in music - Puccini's Madame Butterfly premieres
- 1903 in music - Mississippi John Hurt begins performing
- 1902 in music - Leadbelly begins performing
- 1901 in music - Louis Armstrong born
- 1900 in music - Puccini's Tosca premieres
1890s
- 1899 in music - Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag; Elgar's Enigma Variations
- 1898 in music -
- 1897 in music - Ragtime music becomes popular in the USA
- 1896 in music - Puccini's La Bohème premieres
- 1895 in music -
- 1894 in music - Enrico Caruso's musical career begins
- 1893 in music - Falstaff premieres
- 1892 in music - "After The Ball" sells over 1 million sheet music copies
- 1891 in music - Sergei Prokofiev, Cole Porter born
- 1890 in music -
1880s
- 1889 in music - first gramophone records by Emile Berliner
- 1888 in music - wax phonograph cylinders commercially marketed
- 1887 in music - Alexander Borodin dies
- 1886 in music - Ma Rainey born
- 1885 in music - Tin Pan Alley music industry formed
- 1884 in music - Sophie Tucker born
- 1883 in music - Mamie Smith born
- 1882 in music - Leopold Stokowski born
- 1881 in music - Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman premieres
- 1880 in music - Jacques Offenbach dies
1870s
- 1879 in music - Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance premieres
- 1878 in music - George M. Cohan born
- 1877 in music - phonograph invented. Buddy Bolden born.
- 1876 in music - Ricard Wagner's Siegfried premieres
- 1875 in music - Georges Bizet's Carmen premieres
- 1874 in music - Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
- 1873 in music - W.C. Handy, Enrico Caruso born
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- 1871 in music - Giuseppe Verdi's Aida premieres
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1860s
- 1869 in music - Ricard Wagner's Das Rheingold
- 1868 in music - Scott Joplin born
- 1867 in music - "Blue Danube Waltz" by Johann Strauss II
- 1866 in music - Bedrich Smetana's The Bartered Bride
- 1865 in music - Jean Sibelius born
- 1864 in music - Stephen Foster dies
- 1863 in music - Ernesto Nazareth born
- 1862 in music - Claude Debussy born
- 1861 in music - Nellie Melba born
- 1860 in music - Gustav Mahler born
1850s
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- 1858 in music - Giacomo Puccini born
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- 1854 in music - Stephen Foster's "Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair"
- 1853 in music - Verdi's Il Trovatore premieres
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- 1851 in music - Stephen Foster's Old Folks At Home
- 1850 in music - Stephen Foster's Oh, Susana!
1840s
- 1849 in music -
- 1848 in music - Gaetano Donizetti dies
- 1847 in music -
- 1846 in music - Adolphe Sax invents the "saxophone"
- 1845 in music - Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser premieres
- 1844 in music - Rimsky-Korsakov born
- 1843 in music - Minstrel show premieres in United States
- 1842 in music - Arthur Sullivan born
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- 1840 in music - Paganini dies; Tchaikovsky born
1830s
- 1839 in music - Modest Mussorgsky born
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- 1836 in music - Donizetti's Belisario premieres
- 1835 in music - Camille Saint-Saëns born
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- 1833 in music - Alexander Borodin born
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1820s
- 1829 in music - Anton Rubenstein born
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- 1827 in music - Beethoven dies
- 1826 in music - Stephen Foster born
- 1825 in music - Antonio Salieri dies
- 1824 in music - Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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- 1821 in music - Pauline Garcia-Viardot born
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1810s
- 1819 in music - Jacques Offenbach born
- 1818 in music - Silent Night premieres
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1800s
- 1809 in music - Joseph Haydn dies
- 1808 in music - Beethoven's 5th Symphony
- 1807 in music - La Vestale by Gaspare Spontini
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- 1805 in music - Fidelio
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- 1801 in music - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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1790s
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- 1791 in music - Mozart's The Magic Flute
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1780s
- 1789 in music - Mozart's Così fan tutte
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- 1787 in music - Mozart's Don Giovanni
- 1786 in music - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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- 1770 in music - Ludwig van Beethoven born
1760s
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- 1756 in music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
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- 1750 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach dies
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- 1732 in music - Joseph Haydn born
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- 1706 in music - Johann Pachelbel dies
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1690s
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- 1695 in music - Henry Purcell dies
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1680s
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- 1685 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach born
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1670s
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1660s
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1650s
- 1659 in music - Henry Purcell born
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- 1653 in music - Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel born
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1640s
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1600s
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- 1608 in music - "Arianna " by Claudio Monteverdi
- 1607 in music - "La Favola D'Orfeo " by Claudio Monteverdi
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