List of ballet premieres before 1800
1581
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Comique de la Reine | Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx | Girard de Beaulieu | Hôtel de Bourbon | October 15 |
1608
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Il ballo delle ingrate | Claudio Monteverdi | Mantua | June 4 |
1635
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet de la Merlaison | Louis XIII | Château de Chantilly | March 15 |
1653
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Royal de la Nuit | Jean de Cambefort, Jean-Baptiste Boësset, Michel Lambert | Salle du Petit-Bourbon | February 23 |
1717
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Loves of Mars and Venus | John Weaver | Drury Lane Theatre | March 2 |
1754
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les Fêtes Chinoises | Jean-Georges Noverre | Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique | June |
1761
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Don Juan | Gasparo Angiolini | Christoph Willibald von Gluck | Theater am Kärntnertor | October 17 |
1778
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Les petits riens | Jean-Georges Noverre | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Academie Royale de Musique | June 11 |
1789
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La fille mal gardée | Jean Dauberval | pastiche of unknown origin | Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux | July 1 |
1799
| title | choreographer | composer | venue or presentation | date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arden of Faversham | Sadler's Wells |