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[edit] 2000s

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Live 8 concerts took place in 9 countries worldwide during 2005.

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 and Joe Strummer
2001 in music, 2001 in British music - Napster's popularity peaks; Deaths of Aaliyah and George Harrison
2000 in music, 2000 in British music Eminem, The Marshall Mathers LP. Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory

List of 10 more sold albums of the 2000s

1.- The Beatles 1 31 millons 2000 2.- Norah Jones Come Away With Me 22.5 millons 2002 3.- Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 22 millons 2000 4.- Eminem The Eminem Show 20.5 millons 2002 5.- Britney Spears Oops I Did It Again 20 millons 2000 6.- Linkin Park Hybrid Theory 16.5 millons 2000 7.- NSync No Strings Attached 16 millons 2000 8.- Avril Lavigne Let Go 15.75 millons 2002 9.- Usher Confessions 15.5 millons 2004 10.- Evanescence Fallen 15 millons 2003

[edit] 1990s

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, Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar
1995 in music, 1995 in British music - Death of Phyllis Hyman, and Selena and Eazy-E, The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
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, Nirvana's Nevermind, Guns N' Roses's Use Your Illusion I and II
1990 in music, 1990 in British music

[edit] 1980s

1989 in music, 1989 in British music
1988 in music
1987 in music, Guns N' Roses's Appetite for Destruction
1986 in music
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

[edit] 1970s

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 (Image:Zoso.svg); 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

[edit] 1960s

1969 in music - Woodstock music festival held in Bethel, New York, Birth of Tiësto. Gavin Bryars, The Sinking of the Titanic
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, Death of Edith Piaf
1962 in music - Love Me Do released as a single by the Beatles
1961 in music
1960 in music

[edit] 1950s

1959 in music - Motown Records created; Motown's first hit (Barrett Strong's "Money (That's What I Want)"); Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Death of Billie Holiday, Ritchie Valens, Buddy Holly and Big Bopper.
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
1950 in music

[edit] 1940s

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

[edit] 1930s

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

[edit] 1920s

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
1921 in music
1920 in music

[edit] 1910s

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
1910 in music

[edit] 1900s

1909 in music - Elektra by Richard Strauss premieres in Dresden
1908 in music
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
1901 in music
1900 in music - Tosca by Giacomo Puccini premieres in Rome

[edit] 1890s

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
1894 in music
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

[edit] 1880s

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
1885 in music
1884 in music
1883 in music
1882 in music - Parsifal by Richard Wagner premieres in Bayreuth
1881 in music
1880 in music

[edit] 1870s

1879 in music
1878 in music
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
1873 in music
1872 in music
1871 in music - Aida by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Cairo
1870 in music - Die Walküre (the Valkyrie) by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich

[edit] 1860s

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)
1867 in music
1866 in music
1865 in music - Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner premieres in Munich, marking the beginning of the end for traditional tonality
1864 in music
1863 in music
1862 in music - Birth of Claude Debussy
1861 in music
1860 in music

[edit] 1850s

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
1857 in music
1856 in music
1855 in music
1854 in music
1853 in music - Il trovatore by Giuseppe Verdi premieres in Rome; La traviata by Verdi premieres in Venice
1852 in music
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"

[edit] 1840s

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
1841 in music
1840 in music

[edit] 1830s

1839 in music
1838 in music
1837 in music
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
1832 in music
1831 in music
1830 in music

[edit] 1820s

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
1822 in music
1821 in music - Der Freischütz by Carl Maria von Weber, premieres in Berlin
1820 in music

[edit] 1810s

1819 in music
1818 in music
1817 in music
1816 in music - Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) by Gioacchino Rossini, premieres in Rome
1815 in music
1814 in music
1813 in music
1812 in music
1811 in music - Franz Liszt born
1810 in music - Frédéric Chopin born

[edit] 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 by Ludwig van Beethoven
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1801 in music - Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
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[edit] 1790s

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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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[edit] 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 Le nozze di Figaro (The marriage of Figaro)
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1782 in music - Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)
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[edit] 1770s

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1777 in music - Il mondo della luna by Joseph Haydn, premieres in Esterháza, Hungary
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1770 in music - Ludwig van Beethoven born

[edit] 1760s

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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

[edit] 1750s

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1756 in music - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
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1750 in music - Johann Sebastian Bach dies

[edit] 1740s

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1742 in music - première of Messiah by George Frederick Handel, in Dublin
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[edit] 1730s

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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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[edit] 1720s

1729 in music -
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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[edit] 1710s

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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

[edit] 1700s

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1706 in music - Johann Pachelbel dies
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[edit] 1690s

[edit] 1680s

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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[edit] 1670s

[edit] 1660s

[edit] 1650s

1659 in music - Henry Purcell born
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1653 in music - Arcangelo Corelli, Johann Pachelbel born
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1651 in music - La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli
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[edit] 1640s

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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[edit] 1620s

[edit] 1610s

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

[edit] 1590s

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1597 in music - John Dowland's First Book of Lute Songs; Dafne, the first known opera
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1594 in music - Orlande de Lassus completes Lagrime di San Pietro (posthumously published); Orlande de Lassus dies
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[edit] 1580s

[edit] 1570s

[edit] 1560s

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1567 in music - birth of Monteverdi
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[edit] 1530s

1539 in music -
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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[edit] 1520s

1529 in music -
1525 in music - birth of Palestrina
1521 in music - death of Josquin
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[edit] 1510s

[edit] 1500s

1507 in music -
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1501 in music - publication of Harmonice Musices Odhecaton by Ottaviano Petrucci, the first printed collection of polyphonic music
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[edit] Early history

1499 in music
1360 in music Guillaume de Machaut composes Messe de Nostre Dame, the first complete polyphonic ordinary of the mass
20th century BC in music

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