Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1786

1786

• The city of New Orleans bans slaves from dancing in public squares on holy days and Sundays until after evening church services.
• The first Sunday school in the United States is established in Virginia; Sunday schools will become a major part of religious music instruction throughout the country.
• The Stoughton Musical Society, which remains in existence today, is founded in Stoughton, Massachusetts; this is also the beginning of American choral societies. It may be the oldest continuous musical organization in the country, and is the oldest choral society in the United States, and has been called the "earliest musical organization of importance".
• Johann Friedrich Peter founds the Collegium Musicum in Salem, North Carolina.
• Daniel Read and Amos Doolittle begin issuing the American Musical Magazine, the earliest music periodical in Anglo North America.