Music & Entertainment

Free · 124 events · spans 55 CE – 2022 · available to everyone

From medieval troubadours to streaming-era chart records — 124 milestone moments in music, theatre, film, and popular entertainment across two thousand years.

What's in this category

Music & Entertainment covers the long arc of popular and performance arts: ancient and medieval performance traditions, the development of notation, the rise of opera and orchestral music, the birth of theatre genres, the 20th-century recording industry, jazz and rock and hip-hop and pop turning points, film and Broadway milestones, and the streaming-platform era. Both Western and global music traditions are included.

What it's not: TV-specific events live in TV History. Sports entertainment events live in Sports History. Music & Entertainment focuses on songs, recordings, albums, theatre productions, concerts, films, and the people who made them.

Sample events

First Polyphonic Notation System Developed — 1025
Troubadour Movement Begins in Southern France — 1070
First Opera Performance — Dafne (representative) — 1597
Edison Patents the Phonograph (representative) — 1877
Woodstock Music Festival (representative) — 1969
MTV Launches (representative) — 1981
Post Malone Achieves Genre Crossover — 2018
Old Town Road Breaks Chart Records — 2019

+ 116 more events. New events added through corrections and ongoing verification.

How to play this category

Free for everyone. Open Sorting History, tap Play, select Music & Entertainment, choose a game length (5, 10, 15, 20, or 30 events), and sort. No subscription needed. Free users see ads between rounds; Explorer and Historian subscribers play ad-free.

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