Buildings

• February 3 – The foundation stone is laid for the new Irish Houses of Parliament on College Green in Dublin, designed by Edward Lovett Pearce MP as the world's first purpose-built bicameral legislative building.
• Completion of Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland's first Palladian mansion, designed by Alessandro Galilei and Edward Lovett Pearce for William Conolly, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.^[1]
• Completion of Kinlet Hall, Shropshire, England, designed by Francis Smith of Warwick.
• Completion of Marble Hill House, Twickenham, near London, designed by Roger Morris.
• Completion of Sutton Scarsdale Hall, Derbyshire, England, designed by Francis Smith of Warwick.
• Christ Church, Spitalfields, and St George in the East in London, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor, are completed for the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches.
• Chiswick House in London is designed by Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and William Kent.
• The Palladian Dormitory at Westminster School in London is designed by Richard Boyle.
• Fountain of Ahmed III (Üsküdar) completed.