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<h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <p class="note">See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1742</p> <h3>Buildings</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Azm_Palace_(Hama)/TWv1qwHx">Azm Palace (Hama)</a>, <a href="/facts/Syria/7pDXGzq8">Syria</a>, built.</li> <li><a href="/facts/H%25C3%25B4tel_de_Caumont/CReaoTc2">Hôtel de Caumont</a>, <a href="/facts/Aix-en-Provence/3tSnWEHK">Aix-en-Provence</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Robert_de_Cotte/EdhAn8Ws">Robert de Cotte</a> (d.1735) and <a href="/facts/Georges_Vallon/J9PmCySP">Georges Vallon</a>, completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Koz%25C5%2582%25C3%25B3wka_Palace/AGBs66xc">Kozłówka Palace</a>, Poland, designed by Józef Fontana II, completed.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Palace_of_Portici/tXCY9053">Palace of Portici</a>, Italy, designed by <a href="/facts/Antonio_Canevari/Ca5CYv53">Antonio Canevari</a>, completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Palais_Rohan%2c_Strasbourg/jWg9nQJy">Palais Rohan, Strasbourg</a>, <a href="/facts/Alsace/MSXIp87H">Alsace</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Robert_de_Cotte/EdhAn8Ws">Robert de Cotte</a>, completed.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Malplaquet_House/3BdXcTtR">Malplaquet House</a>, east London, England, built.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Berlin_State_Opera/1AG6EAS8">Berlin Court Opera</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Georg_Wenzeslaus_von_Knobelsdorff/pEttHVF4">Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff</a>, inaugurated.</li> <li>Queen Mary Court at <a href="/facts/Greenwich_Hospital%2c_London/T8j4jdyT">Greenwich Hospital, London</a>, planned by <a href="/facts/Christopher_Wren/yKSh7QUa">Wren</a> (d.1723) and <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Hawksmoor/l9V52L13">Hawksmoor</a> (d.1736), completed by <a href="/facts/Thomas_Ripley_(architect)/7UPP8cWv">Thomas Ripley</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Redland_Chapel/YQ7smbdS">Redland Chapel</a>, <a href="/facts/Bristol/nLwyoDTG">Bristol</a>, England, designed probably by <a href="/facts/John_Strahan/k3vVQGSR">John Strahan</a> or <a href="/facts/William_Halfpenny/SCUSz6Pr">William Halfpenny</a>, built.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="publications">Publications</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Batty_Langley/Vc0RquFx">Batty Langley</a> publishes <i>Ancient Architecture Restored</i> in England, a pioneering pattern book for <a href="/facts/Gothic_Revival_architecture/gWJmqCH1">Gothic Revival architecture</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li>March 13 – <a href="/facts/Karl_Friedrich_Schinkel/mRjnxWCH">Karl Friedrich Schinkel</a>, Prussian architect (died <a href="/facts/1841_in_architecture/TcXfC32H">1841</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li>June 29 – <a href="/facts/Joseph_Emanuel_Fischer_von_Erlach/FefPt0Px">Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach</a>, Austrian architect (born <a href="/facts/1693_in_architecture/8kgSmgSw">1693</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>(in English) "History of the residence". www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl. Archived from the original on 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2010-08-01. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140707162302/http://www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl/289,history-of-the-residence" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20140707162302/http://www.muzeumzamoyskich.pl/289,history-of-the-residence</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Burrough, T. H. B. (1970). Bristol. London: Studio Vista. ISBN 0-289-79804-3. <a href="0-289-79804-3" target="_blank">0-289-79804-3</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>