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1780 in architecture

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1780 in architecture

The year 1780 in architecture involved some significant events.

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Buildings

  • April 17 - Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in France, designed by Victor Louis is inaugurated.
  • June 24 - Chesme Church in Saint Petersburg, designed by Yury Felten, is consecrated.
  • Assumption Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine, is consecrated.
  • Fragrant Hills Pagoda in China is completed.
  • Kashi Vishwanath Temple on the Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is built.
  • Xumi Fushou Temple in Chengde Mountain Resort, China, is built.
  • Royal Villa of Monza in Lombardy, designed by Giuseppe Piermarini, is completed.
  • Reconstruction of Palazzo Tucci in Lucca, Tuscany by Ottaviano Diodati is commissioned.

    • Births

  • October 1 - Robert Smirke, English architect (died 1867)

    • Deaths

  • April 23 - Sanderson Miller, English Gothic Revival architect and landscape designer (born 1716)
  • August 29 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (born 1713)

    • References

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