A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany

The Romans construct the massive Pont du Gard to bring water to the city of Nîmes

The full flowering of the Romanesque style is seen in the nave of the abbey church at Vézelay, in France

The new abbey church of St Denis is consecrated near Paris, introducing the style of architecture later known as Gothic

Construction begins in Paris on the Sainte Chapelle, designed to house relics acquired by Louis IX, the king of France

Francis I begins to transform Fontainebleau into a palace, employing artists who establish the mannerist school of Fontainebleau

Louis XIV commissions a well-established team of designers to provide him with a spectacular palace and garden at Versailles

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret launches and edits a radical architectural journal, L'Esprit Nouveau

The Swiss architect Charles-Édouard Jeanneret adopts the simpler Le Corbusier as a pseudonym in L'Esprit Nouveau

The Swiss architect Le Corbusier begins a 20-year partnership with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret

Le Corbusier publishes an influential collection of his articles under the title Towards a New Architecture

The Austrian architect Adolf Loos builds a house in Paris for the Romanian dadaist poet Tristan Tzara

Le Corbusier and other modernist architects set up the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM)

Le Corbusier's use of béton brut (raw concrete) introduces Brutalism

Swiss-born French architect Le Corbusier introduces the Modulor, an architectural unit based on the Golden Section

Henri Matisse completes the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence, with every detail designed by himself

Le Corbusier's completes his most massive modernist development, the Unité d'Habitation at Marseilles

Le Corbusier completes the reinforced-concrete pilgrimage church of Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp

The Pompidou Centre, designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, opens in Paris

US architect Ieoh Ming Pei completes his underground extension of the Louvre, surmounted by a glass pyramid