Editing Timeline of musical events (section)

== 1680s ==
* '''[[1689 in music]]''' –  ''[[Dido and Aeneas]]'', opera, by [[Henry Purcell]] and [[Nahum Tate]] (libretto) performed
* '''[[1688 in music]]''' –
* '''[[1687 in music]]''' – Death of [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]], French composer
* '''[[1686 in music]]''' –
* '''[[1685 in music]]''' – ''[[Albion and Albanius]]'', opera, by [[Louis Grabu]]; Birth of: [[Johann Sebastian Bach]] and [[George Frideric Handel|Georg Friedrich Häendel]] (German composers, organists and harpsichordists); [[Domenico Scarlatti]], Italian composer and harpsichordist
* '''[[1684 in music]]''' –
* '''[[1683 in music]]''' – Birth of [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], French composer and music theorist
* '''[[1682 in music]]''' –
* '''[[1681 in music]]''' –
* '''[[1680 in music]]''' –