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1819 CE - 1880 CE: Life of the composer Jacques Offenbach.
1819 CE: The composer Jacques Offenbach is born in Cologne in Germany.
1833 CE: The family of Jacques Offenbach moves to Paris.
1844 CE: Jacques Offenbach marries Herminie Mitchell.
1855 CE: Jacques Offenbach rents his own theatre, the Bouffes-Parisiens, to showcase his operettas.
1856 CE: Jacques Offenbach coins the term "operetta" for his own show La rose de Saint-Flour.
1858 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld.
1859 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta Geneviève de Brabant.
1864 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta The Beautiful Helen.
1866 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta La vie parisienne.
1867 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein.
1868 CE: Jacques Offenbach writes the operetta La Périchole.
1876 CE: Jacques Offenbach tours the United States.
1880 CE: The composer Jacques Offenbach dies in Paris.
1881 CE: Premiere of the opera The Tales of Hoffman by Jacques Offenbach.