1800
- Samuel Adams Holyoke's first volume of The Instrumental Assistant is the first "comprehensive instrumental and collection of traditional music for band instruments published" in the United States.
- The first camp meeting is held in Logan County, Kentucky, led by minister James McGready. Camp meetings will become an essential component of the Second Great Awakening of Christian fervor, which will dominate the "religious life of America's frontier communities". Hymn-singing was a major part of camp meetings.
- James Hewitt and William Dunlap Pizarro in Peru is the first "important American operatic melodrama".
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