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The following is a list of anniversaries coming up in 2020 (births, deaths, premieres) for editors who may wish to plan work on a Featured Article or a Did You Know? entry to coincide with the date. It can also be used for nominating Featured Pictures to appear on the Main Wikipedia page for a particular day. Please continue to add to this list.

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2021

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Years to search
  • 1571 (450 years ago),
  • 1621 (400 years ago),
  • 1671 (350 years ago),
    • Cambert: Pomone (3 March)
    • Peranda and Bontempi: Dafne (3 September)
  • 1721 (300 years ago),
    • Scarlatti: La Griselda (January)
    • Orlandini: Nerone (January)
    • Telemann: Der gedultige Socrates (28 January)
    • Bononcini: Crispo (February)
    • Mattei, Bononcini & Handel: Muzio Scevola (26 April)
    • Hasse: Antioco (11 August)
    • Porsile: Meride e Selinunte (28 August)
    • Handel: Floridante (20 December)
  • 1771 (250 years ago),
    • Gazzaniga: La Locanda
    • Piccinni: La finte Gemelle (2 January)
    • Mysliveczek: Motezuma (January)
    • Martini: L'Amoureux de quinze ans ou La double Fete (18 April)
    • Hiller: Der Aerndtekranz (Spring)
    • Salieri: Armida (2 June)
    • Roellig: Clarisse oder Das unbekannte Dienstmädgen (8 October)
    • Hasse: Ruggiero o vero L'eroica Gratitudine (16 October)
    • Mozart: Ascanio in Alba (17 October)
    • Grétry: L'ami de la Maison (26 October)
    • Grétry: Zémire et Azor (9 November)
    • Neefe: Die Apotheke (13 December)
    • Deller: Il Maestro di Capella (31 December)
  • 1821 (200 years ago),
    • Grazioli: La Festa della Riconoscenza o sia Il Pellegrino bianco (25 January)
    • Rossini: Matilde di Shabran (24 February)
    • Weber: Preciosa (14 March)
    • Paer: Le Maftre de Chapelle ou Le Souper imprevu (29 March)
    • Aiblinger: Rodrigo und Zimene (1 May)
    • Weber: Der Freischütz (18 June)
    • Auber: Emma ou La Promesse imprudente (7 July)
    • Mercadante: Elisa e Claudio ossia L' Amore protetto dall' Amicizia (30 October)
    • Dupuy: Felicie eller Den Romaneska Flickan (19 December)
  • 1871 (150 years ago),
    • Bottesini: Ali Baba (18 January)
    • J. Strauss: Indigo und die vierzig Räuber (10 February)
    • Cagnoni: Papà Martin (4 March)
    • Arrieta: Marina (16 March)
    • Serov/Solovyev: Vrazhya Sila (1 May)
    • Braga: Reginella (16 September)
    • Verdi: Aida (24 Decemer)
    • Sullivan: Thespis (26 December)
  • 1921 (100 years ago),
    • Petraukas: Birute (16 February)
    • De Boeck: La Route d'Émeraude (25 February)
    • De Lara: Les trois Mousquetaires (3 March)
    • Dupont: Antar (14 March)
    • Börresen: Kaddara (16 March)
    • Marsick: La Jane (29 March)
    • Vittadini: Anima Allegra (15 April)
    • Mascagni: Il Piccolo Marat (2 May)
    • Wellesz: Die Prinzessin Girnara (15 May)
    • Gatty: Prince Ferelon; or, The Princess' s Suiiors (21 May)
    • Medinš: Uguns un Nakts (26 May)
    • Hindemith: Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen and Das Nusch-Nuschi (4 June)
    • Honegger: Le Roi David (11 June)
    • Franchetti and Giordano: Giove a Pompeii (5 July)
    • Campbell: Thais and Talmaae (13 September)
    • Janáček: Káťa Kabanová (23 November)
    • Hüe: Dans l'Ombre de la Cathedrale (7 December)
    • Alfano: Sakùntala (10 December)
    • Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges (30 December)
  • 1971 (50 years ago)

Some 2021 anniversaries (by no means exhaustive)...