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• 2007 in music, 2007 in British music - Deaths of Izumi Sakai, Luciano Pavarotti and Don Arden; Live Earth, Led Zeppelin reunion; said to be the "largest demand for one show in history" due to overwhelming response at ticketing website.
• 2006 in music, 2006 in British music, 2006 in Swiss music - Deaths of James Brown and Syd Barrett;
• 2005 in music, 2005 in British music, 2005 in Swiss music - Death of Luther Vandross, Live 8 benefit concert;
• 2004 in music, 2004 in British music - Death of Ray Charles and Dimebag Darrell;
• 2003 in music, 2003 in British music - Death of Johnny Cash
• 2002 in music, 2002 in British music - Death of Layne Staley
• 2001 in music, 2001 in British music - Napster's popularity peaks; iPod goes on sale; Deaths of Aaliyah and George Harrison
• 2000 in music, 2000 in British music Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP

• 1999 in music, 1999 in British music
• 1998 in music, 1998 in British music - Death of Frank Sinatra; Lauryn Hill - the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill; Madonna - Ray of Light; Offspring - Americana
• 1997 in music, 1997 in British music - Death of The Notorious B.I.G., Michael Hutchence ,and Velvet
• 1996 in music, 1996 in British music - Death of Tupac Shakur, and Brad Nowell
• 1995 in music, 1995 in British music - Death of Eazy-E and Shannon Hoon
• 1994 in music, 1994 in British music - Death of Kurt Cobain
• 1993 in music, 1993 in British music - Death of Frank Zappa
• 1992 in music, 1992 in British music - Death of Yutaka Ozaki
• 1991 in music, 1991 in British music - Death of Freddie Mercury
• 1990 in music, 1990 in British music

• 1989 in music, 1989 in British music
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• 1985 in music - Live Aid and Farm Aid benefit concerts
• 1984 in music - release of Bob Marley & The Wailers collection Legend, the best-selling reggae album of all time; Akhnaten by Philip Glass premieres in Stuttgart
• 1983 in music - New Order release "Blue Monday"; Metallica Release first studio album Kill Em All
• 1982 in music - The compact disc is introduced; Michael Jackson release Thriller, the best-selling album of all time
• 1981 in music - MTV first airs; Death of Bob Marley
• 1980 in music - Joy Division singer Ian Curtis commits suicide, John Lennon is murdered outside the Dakota Building in New York City, accidental death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham

• 1979 in music - Sony Walkman goes on sale; The Clash - London Calling, Pink Floyd's The Wall Death of Sid Vicious
• 1978 in music
• 1977 in music - The Sex Pistols release Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols; Death of Elvis Presley; Fleetwood Mac releases Rumours
• 1976 in music - Birth of Armin Van Buuren
• 1975 in music - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run; Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks; Iron Maiden was formed.
• 1974 in music
• 1973 in music - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon , Birth of Ferry Corsten
• 1972 in music - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
• 1971 in music - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (); Marvin Gaye - What's Going On; Death of Jim Morrison
• 1970 in music - The Beatles disband; Death of Jimi Hendrix; John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

• 1969 in music - Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York, Birth of Tiësto
• 1968 in music - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
• 1967 in music - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band; The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico; The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced
• 1966 in music - The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds; The Beatles - Revolver; Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
• 1965 in music - The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
• 1964 in music - Milton Babbitt, Ensembles For Synthesizer; Bill Lear invents 8-track tape cartridge; British Invasion begins
• 1963 in music - First cassette tapes made by Philips , Birth of Paul Oakenfold
• 1962 in music - Love Me Do released as a single by the Beatles
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• 1959 in music - Motown Records created; Motown's first hit (Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)"); Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
• 1958 in music Cannonball Adderley, Somethin' Else, Bruce Dickinson is born and Madonna is born
• 1957 in music - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet in Liverpool
• 1956 in music - The first Eurovision Song Contest is held on 24 May
• 1955 in music - Rock Around The Clock becomes first worldwide #1 Rock and Roll record
• 1954 in music - Elvis Presley releases That's Alright Mama on Sun Records; First Fender Stratocaster produced
• 1953 in music
• 1952 in music, 1952 in music (UK) - The official UK singles chart is launched; Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) established
• 1951 in music - Rocket 88 is recorded by Ike Turner and hailed as the first rock 'n' roll song; The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky premieres in Venice
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• 1949 in music - RCA Victor introduces 45 RPM records
• 1948 in music - Columbia Records introduces 331/3 RPM (LP) records. Birth of Robert Plant, John Bonham (both of Led Zeppelin).
• 1947 in music
• 1946 in music - Birth of John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin bassist).
• 1945 in music - Birth of Bob Marley; Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten premieres in London
• 1944 in music - Birth of Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin guitarist).
• 1943 in music - Birth of Jim Morrison
• 1942 in music - Births of Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney
• 1941 in music - Les Paul builds one of the first solid-body electric guitars; Birth of Bob Dylan
• 1940 in music - Birth of Frank Zappa, Birth of John Lennon

• 1939 in music
• 1938 in music - Benny Goodman presents a jazz concert in Carnegie Hall; Death of Dan W. Quinn
• 1937 in music
• 1936 in music - Billboard Magazine publishes first U.S. music chart
• 1935 in music - Birth of Elvis Presley; Audiovox produce first electric bass guitar; Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin premieres in New York
• 1934 in music - Deaths of Elgar and Holst
• 1933 in music - Birth of Yoko Ono
• 1932 in music - Death of Sousa; Birth of John Williams; Adolph Rickenbacker produces first electric guitar; Bell Labs creates first stereophonic sound recordings
• 1931 in music
• 1930 in music - Birth of Ray Charles

• 1929 in music
• 1928 in music - The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht (libretto) premieres in Berlin
• 1927 in music
• 1926 in music - Birth of Chuck Berry; Turandot by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
• 1925 in music - Big record labels begin using electric microphones for recording; 78 RPM adopted as standard for records; BBC makes first radio broadcast in stereo; Wozzeck by Alban Berg premieres in Berlin
• 1924 in music - Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York
• 1923 in music - First recordings by Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, and many other African-American artists
• 1922 in music - The first commercial radio station in the United States begins broadcasting
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• 1919 in music
• 1918 in music - Phonograph cylinders become obsolete, - Death of Claude Debussy
• 1917 in music - First hit jazz recordings by Original Dixieland Jass Band
• 1916 in music
• 1915 in music - Tom Brown starts billing his group as a "Jass Band"; Birth of Frank Sinatra
• 1914 in music - St. Louis Blues published; first calypso music recordings
• 1913 in music - Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is premiered in Paris.
• 1912 in music - Birth of Woody Guthrie
• 1911 in music - Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
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• 1909 in music - Elektra by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
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• 1907 in music
• 1906 in music - Victor begins selling the Victrola phonograph player for $15.00
• 1905 in music - The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár premieres in Vienna; Salome by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
• 1904 in music - Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Milan
• 1903 in music
• 1902 in music - Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy premieres in Paris
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• 1900 in music - Tosca by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Rome

• 1899 in music
• 1898 in music
• 1897 in music - Ragtime music becomes popular in the United States; Death of Brahms
• 1896 in music
• 1895 in music - George W. Johnson becomes first Afro-American recording artist with The Laughing Song
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• 1893 in music
• 1892 in music - Dan W. Quinn makes first recordings in New York City
• 1891 in music
• 1890 in music - John Philip Sousa makes first recordings with Columbia Phonograph Company

• 1889 in music - Effie Stewart records first serious classical music at Edison's Menlo Park; First Phonograph Parlor opens in San Francisco
• 1888 in music - Wax phonograph cylinders commercially marketed; Emile Berliner invents lateral-cut disc records
• 1887 in music
• 1886 in music - Franz Liszt dies
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• 1882 in music - Parsifal by Richard Wagner premieres in Bayreuth
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• 1877 in music - Phonograph and phonograph cylinder invented by Thomas Alva Edison
• 1876 in music - Siegfried and Götterdämmerung by Richard Wagner premiere in Bayreuth
• 1875 in music - Carmen by Georges Bizet premieres in Paris
• 1874 in music - Boris Gudonov by Modest Mussorgsky premieres in Saint Petersburg; Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II premieres in Vienna
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• 1871 in music - Aida by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Cairo
• 1870 in music - Die Walküre (the Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich

• 1869 in music - Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich
• 1868 in music - Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg by Richard Wagner premières in Munich; Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms premières in Bremen; Wiegenlied by Brahms (Brahms' Lullaby)
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• 1866 in music
• 1865 in music - Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich, marking the beginning of the end for traditional tonality
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• 1863 in music
• 1862 in music - Birth of Claude Debussy
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• 1859 in music - Faust by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris
• 1858 in music - Orphée aux enfers by Jacques Offenbach, the first operetta, premieres in Paris; Hector Berlioz writes Les Troyens
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• 1853 in music - Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Rome; La traviata by Verdi premieres in Venice
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• 1851 in music - Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Venice
• 1850 in music - Lohengrin by Richard Wagner premieres in Weimar; Foster's Plantation Melodies by Stephen Foster, including "Camptown Races"

• 1849 in music
• 1848 in music
• 1847 in music - "Oh! Susanna" by Stephen Foster published
• 1846 in music - Adolphe Sax invents the saxophone
• 1845 in music - Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner premières in Dresden
• 1844 in music
• 1843 in music - Minstrel show premieres in United States; The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner premieres in Dresden
• 1842 in music - "Lisztomania" sweeps Europe
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• 1836 in music - Les Huguenots by Giacomo Meyerbeer premieres in Paris
• 1835 in music - Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti premieres in Naples
• 1834 in music - Die Neue Zeitschrift für Musik first published by Robert Schumann
• 1833 in music - Johannes Brahms born
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• 1829 in music
• 1828 in music - Franz Schubert dies
• 1827 in music - Ludwig van Beethoven dies; Winterreise by Franz Schubert
• 1826 in music
• 1825 in music - Songs from Sir Walter Scott by Franz Schubert, including "Ellens dritter Gesang" (Schubert's Ave Maria)
• 1824 in music - Beethoven's 9th Symphony
• 1823 in music - Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert
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• 1821 in music - Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, premieres in Berlin
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• 1816 in music - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) by Gioacchino Rossini, premieres in Rome
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• 1811 in music - Franz Liszt born
• 1810 in music - Frédéric Chopin born

• 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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• 1801 in music - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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• 1797 in music - Franz Schubert born
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• 1791 in music - Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute); death of Mozart
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• 1789 in music - Mozart's Così fan tutte
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• 1787 in music - Mozart's Don Giovanni
• 1786 in music - Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro)
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• 1777 in music - Il mondo della luna by Joseph Haydn, premieres in Esterháza, Hungary
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• 1762 in music - Orfeo ed Euridice by Christophe Willibald Gluck, premieres in Vienna
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• 1760 in music - La buona figliuola by Niccolo Piccini, premieres in Rome

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• 1742 in music - première of Messiah by George Frederick Handel, in Dublin
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• 1733 in music - La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, the first opera buffa, premieres in Naples; Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau, premieres in Paris
• 1732 in music - Joseph Haydn born
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• 1728 in music - The Beggar's Opera by John Gay and Johann Christoph Pepusch, premieres in London
• 1727 in music - Zadok the Priest (the coronation anthem) by George Frideric Handel
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• 1725 in music - publication of Twelve concerti, Op. 8 by Antonio Vivaldi, including the Four Seasons
• 1724 in music - Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel premières in London
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• 1722 in music - Traité de l'harmonie by Jean-Philippe Rameau causes a revolution in music theory.
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• 1711 in music - Rinaldo by Handel, premieres in London, the first all-Italian opera performed in London
• 1710 in music - Agrippina by Handel, premieres in Venice

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• 1689 in music - Dido and Aeneas, opera, by Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate (libretto) performed
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• 1685 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel born
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• 1649 in music - Giasone by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice, the first opera to separate aria and recitative
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• 1644 in music - Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli, premieres in Venice
• 1643 in music - death of Claudio Monteverdi
• 1642 in music - L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, premiered in Venice
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• 1640 in music - Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria by Claudio Monteverdi, premieres in Venice

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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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• 1600 in music - the first oratorio: Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo by Emilio de' Cavalieri

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• 1597 in music - John Dowland's First Book of Lute Songs; Dafne, the first known opera
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• 1538 in music - printing of the first protestant hymn-book, Ein Hubsch new Gesangbuch; publication of the first book of madrigals by Maddalena Casulana, the first printed book of music by a woman in European history.
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