May 2, 1660:
Alessandro Scarlatti is born in Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily, under Spanish rule.
October 26, 1685:
Domenico Scarlatti is born in Naples, Kingdom of Naples under Spanish rule, the sixth of ten children born to Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti, composer, and Antonia Maria Vittoria Anzoloni.
October 22, 1725:
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti dies in Naples, Kingdom of Naples under Austrian rule, aged 65 years, five months, and 20 days.
April 15, 1971:
After a performance of Alessandro Scarlatti’s (†245) Missa pro defunctis and Stravinsky’s Requiem Canticles, an oration by the Mayor of Venice and a Greek Orthodox ceremony featuring organ works by Andrea Gabrieli (†384), the earthly remains of Igor Stravinsky are interred on the island of San Michele in Venice, a few steps from those of Sergey Diaghilev.