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Events

• February 3 – Severe earthquake in L'Aquila damages many buildings.

Buildings and structures

See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1703

Buildings completed

• May – Cabin of Peter the Great, built in three days by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment.¹
• Cambrai Cathedral, France
• La Merced Cloister designed and constructed as part of a monastery in Mexico City by Juan de Herrera²
• Stavenhagenhaus, Hamburg, Germany (dated from the arms above the main entrance door)
• Approximate date – Church of St. Anne, Kraków, Poland, designed by Tylman van Gameren, is completed

Births

• February – Robert Morris, English architect and writer on architecture (died 1754)
• October 13 – Andrea Belli, Maltese architect and businessman (died 1772)
• December 11 – Giovanni Antonio Medrano, Italian architect (died 1760)³
• Approximate date – Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet, English nobleman and amateur architect (d. 1777)

Deaths

• February 16 – Lorenzo Gafà, Maltese Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1639)
• March 3 – Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher, architect and polymath (born 1635)
• December 27 – Thomas Cartwright, English architect (born c.1635)

References

1. The Companion Guide to St Petersburg. ↩

2. Galindo, Carmen; Magdelena (2002). Mexico City Historic Center. Mexico City: Ediciones Nueva Guia. p. 76. ISBN 968-5437-29-7. 968-5437-29-7 ↩

3. "MEDRANO, Giovanni Antonio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani – Volume 73 (2009) (in Italian). Enciclopedia Italiana. Retrieved 20 February 2012. http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-antonio-medrano_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/ ↩