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<h2 id="events">Events</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/January_27/sCpAVlra">January 27</a> – The <a href="/facts/Pantheon,_London/pWXrB4lL">Pantheon, London</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/James_Wyatt/W5axhUcR">James Wyatt</a>, opens to the public (demolished 1937).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="buildings-and-structures">Buildings and structures</h2> <h3>Buildings completed</h3> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Adelphi,_London/99ULCJt4">Adelphi Buildings, London</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Robert_Adam/Qu9nqvTo">Robert Adam</a> and his brothers.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Basilica_of_the_Fourteen_Holy_Helpers/moIyKmUC">Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers</a> (<i>Basilika Vierzehnheiligen</i>) in <a href="/facts/Bavaria/CLbr6NIG">Bavaria</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Cathedral_of_Hajd%C3%BAdorog/EPoNheDj">Cathedral of Hajdúdorog</a>, Hungary.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Tomb_of_Mian_Ghulam_Kalhoro/k6BBNeaD">Tomb of Mian Ghulam Kalhoro</a> in <a href="/facts/Hyderabad,_Sindh/R41dGwr6">Hyderabad, Sindh</a>, consecrated.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Dragon_House_(Sanssouci)/4dLz8CVm">Dragon House (Sanssouci)</a> in <a href="/facts/Potsdam/d9nRjMzn">Potsdam</a>, by command of King <a href="/facts/Frederick_the_Great/Bv1At4Hy">Frederick the Great</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Old_Stone_Fort_(Schoharie,_New_York)/LrA2aaXv">Old Stone Fort (Schoharie, New York)</a>, built as a Reformed Dutch church.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Museum_of_Newport_History/gGcLKVY0">Brick Market</a>, <a href="/facts/Newport,_Rhode_Island/C0UsPEff">Newport, Rhode Island</a>, designed by <a href="/facts/Peter_Harrison_(architect)/kKGhEDQ3">Peter Harrison</a> (begun <a href="/facts/1762_in_architecture/AGWGaad9">1762</a>).</li></ul> <h2 id="births">Births</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/February_16/Bba5egQV">February 16</a> – <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Gilly/3hDrtBqr">Friedrich Gilly</a>, German architect, son of <a href="/facts/David_Gilly/RTEjhFJD">David Gilly</a> (died <a href="/facts/1800_in_architecture/mQLl7R6N">1800</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/June_8/UR4fHNx5">June 8</a> – <a href="/facts/Robert_Stevenson_(civil_engineer)/Wreukjau">Robert Stevenson</a>, Scottish lighthouse engineer (died <a href="/facts/1850_in_architecture/1Lun2evm">1850</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/John_Foulston/mkvf5hce">John Foulston</a>, English architect working in Plymouth (died <a href="/facts/1841_in_architecture/TcXfC32H">1841</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Edward_Gyfford/4tdpADnW">Edward Gyfford</a>, English architect (died after 1851)</li></ul> <h2 id="deaths">Deaths</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/March_10/pcuzvzSX">March 10</a> – <a href="/facts/Martin_Schmid/xgGLtEGt">Martin Schmid</a>, Swiss Jesuit missionary, architect and musician (born <a href="/facts/1694_in_architecture/8kgSmgSw">1694</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/March_21/5h4oCUn7">March 21</a> – <a href="/facts/Alexander_Kokorinov/h3SQ8VjU">Alexander Kokorinov</a>, Russian architect and teacher (born <a href="/facts/1726_in_architecture/DFU479sC">1726</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/October_19/C2NLg2kT">October 19</a> – <a href="/facts/Andrea_Belli/17bfhEle">Andrea Belli</a>, Maltese architect and businessman (born <a href="/facts/1703_in_architecture/JTBaxLSd">1703</a>)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"The Pantheon | Survey of London: volumes 31 and 32 (pp. 268-283)". British-history.ac.uk. 1938-10-28. Retrieved 2012-11-22. <a href="http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41477" target="_blank">http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41477</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Sz. Kürti, Katalin (1989). Hajdúdorog, Görög Katolikus Székesegyház; a Tájak Korok Múzeumok Kiskönyvtára c. sorozat 329. száma. Veszprém: TKM Egyesület. ISBN 963-555-604-7, p. 4–5. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>