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1783 in architecture
Overview of the events of 1783 in architecture
The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
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- September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.[1]
Buildings completed
- New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated.
- Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed
- Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.[2]
- Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.
- May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852)
- June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)
- February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)
- "Mariinsky Theatre". Mariinsky Theatre. Archived from the original on 2011-12-03. Retrieved 2011-12-04.
- Laleli Complex Archived 2006-05-25 at the Wayback Machine. ArchNet.