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Events relating to architecture
Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London
Cosmas Damian Asam begins work on a highly theatrical creation, the Benedictine Abbey of Weltenburg (1714-1735), joined by his younger brother Egid Quirin from 1721
Colen Campbell creates interest in the Palladian style in Britain with the publication of his Vitruvius Britannicus
The earl of Burlington employs Colen Campbell to remodel his Piccadilly house in the Palladian style
The Asam brothers build at their own expense the tiny and brilliant baroque church of St John Nepomuk, attached to their own house in Munich
Frederick the Great begins to build the summer palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London
Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism
Work begins on Edinburgh's New Town, to the design of the 23-year-old architect James Craig
27-year-old Thomas Jefferson begins constructing a mansion on a hilltop in Charlottesville, calling it Monticello ('little mountain')
Charlotte Square in Edinburgh begins to be built to the design of Robert Adam
US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone
With advice from Thomas Daniell, Samuel Pepys Cockerell builds himself a house, Sezincote, with a roof line of fanciful Indian domes
English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent
Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'
English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival
Charles Barry wins the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament
Pugin publishes his most famous book, Contrasts, a polemical comparison showing the 'present decay of taste' compared to medieval architecture
Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament
Pugin begins work on his first contribution to country house architecture, adding extensive Gothic details to Scarisbrick Hall in Lancashire
Pugin publishes The True Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture
The frontispiece to Pugin's Revival of Christian Architecture displays three cathedrals and twenty-two other religious buildings designed by him
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight
Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin
