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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_3/5zp8ahYw">February 3</a> – Severe earthquake in <a href="/facts/L%27Aquila/TUW1CGT9">L'Aquila</a> damages many buildings.</li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1703</p> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li>May – <a href="/facts/Cabin_of_Peter_the_Great/LYpuvQEz">Cabin of Peter the Great</a>, built in three days by soldiers of the <a href="/facts/Semyonovsky_Regiment/QcbbwUny">Semyonovsky Regiment</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Cambrai_Cathedral/rsfLwYdt">Cambrai Cathedral</a>, France</li> <li><a href="/facts/La_Merced_Cloister/Jeu09U40">La Merced Cloister</a> designed and constructed as part of a monastery in <a href="/facts/Mexico_City/gEnGxDEd">Mexico City</a> by <a href="/facts/Juan_de_Herrera/TavJ5jme">Juan de Herrera</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Stavenhagenhaus/yV5RghxA">Stavenhagenhaus</a>, Hamburg, Germany (dated from the arms above the main entrance door)</li> <li>Approximate date – <a href="/facts/Church_of_St._Anne,_Krak%C3%B3w/JXLh94bV">Church of St. Anne, Kraków</a>, Poland, designed by <a href="/facts/Tylman_van_Gameren/lRzexbtp">Tylman van Gameren</a>, is completed</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>February – <a href="/facts/Robert_Morris_(writer)/xbBtg5Mu">Robert Morris</a>, English architect and writer on architecture (died <a href="/facts/1754_in_architecture/fXosc50U">1754</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_13/DBumjTCV">October 13</a> – <a href="/facts/Andrea_Belli/17bfhEle">Andrea Belli</a>, Maltese architect and businessman (died <a href="/facts/1772_in_architecture/t14dcaAL">1772</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_11/HVStcgwJ">December 11</a> – <a href="/facts/Giovanni_Antonio_Medrano/MHdySTpC">Giovanni Antonio Medrano</a>, Italian architect (died <a href="/facts/1760_in_architecture/BzcAbSWR">1760</a>)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> <li>Approximate date – <a href="/facts/Sir_Thomas_Robinson,_1st_Baronet/vDK9c4jp">Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet</a>, <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> nobleman and amateur architect (d. <a href="/facts/1777_in_architecture/0zbqVqsX">1777</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_16/Bba5egQV">February 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Lorenzo_Gaf%C3%A0/wRJD1Gne">Lorenzo Gafà</a>, Maltese Baroque architect and sculptor (born <a href="/facts/1639_in_architecture/wPH1VmxX">1639</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_3/vluyLoq4">March 3</a> – <a href="/facts/Robert_Hooke/T5sEElp5">Robert Hooke</a>, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (born <a href="/facts/1635_in_architecture/wPH1VmxX">1635</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/December_27/dl1DKXF7">December 27</a> – <a href="/facts/Thomas_Cartwright_(architect)/dpQLsBUc">Thomas Cartwright</a>, English architect (born c.1635)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>The Companion Guide to St Petersburg. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Galindo, Carmen; Magdelena (2002). Mexico City Historic Center. Mexico City: Ediciones Nueva Guia. p. 76. ISBN 968-5437-29-7. <a href="968-5437-29-7" target="_blank">968-5437-29-7</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"MEDRANO, Giovanni Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 73 (2009) (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 20 February 2012. <a href="http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-antonio-medrano_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/" target="_blank">http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-antonio-medrano_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>