The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events. Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened. Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened. Vorontsov...
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Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758) were the first accurate surveys of ancient Greek architecture. The rediscovery of the three relatively...
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The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that...
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day. 1665 – Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City. 1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg...
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Corporation. p. 387. ISBN 978-0-486-14840-3. Frederick II (King of Prussia) (1758). Memoirs of Frederick III, King of Prussia. P. Wilson and J. Exshaw. p. 3...
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earthquake strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city's architecture. 1724 – J. S. Bach leads the first performance of Herr Gott, dich loben...
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Opéra national de Lorraine (category Theatres completed in 1758)
reign of the King of Poland and Duke of Lorraine, Stanislas Leszczyński in 1758. This theatre, located behind the Museum of Fine Arts, was destroyed by fire...
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1766) 1741 – Henry Fuseli, Swiss-English painter and academic (died 1825) 1758 – Benedikt Schack, Czech tenor and composer (died 1826) 1796 – Thomas Gregson...
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Canadian explorer (died 1700) 1706 – Polyxena of Hesse-Rotenburg (died 1735) 1758 – Christopher Gore, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 8th Governor...
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astronomer and academic (born 1732) 1817 – André Masséna, French general (born 1758) 1841 – William Henry Harrison, American general and politician, 9th President...
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Gabriel (1758) Place de la Bourse in Bordeaux by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1730–1775) Nancy, Place Stanislas (1752–1760) France portal Architecture portal Style...
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Baroque (redirect from Baroque Art and Architecture)
bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...
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soldier, lawyer, and politician, 5th President of the United States (born 1758) 1848 – François-René de Chateaubriand, French historian and politician (born...
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Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, geodesist, and astronomer (d. 1758) Johann Elias Ridinger, German painter (d. 1767) February 19 – William FitzRoy...
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1803) April 30 – Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author, philologist (b. 1758) May 13 – Maria Madeline Taylor, Australian stage actor (b. 1805) May 16...
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Samarkand (redirect from Architecture of Samarkand)
of the founder of the Uzbek dynasty, the Mangyts, Muhammad Rakhim (1756–1758), who became famous for his strong-willed qualities and military art. Muhammad...
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noble (d. 1758) August 1 – John Rutherford, Scottish physician (d. 1779) August 3 – Antonio Cocchi, Italian physician and naturalist (d. 1758) August 9...
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Panthéon (section Architecture and art)
Place du Panthéon, which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 and 1790, from designs by Jacques-Germain Soufflot, at the behest of King...
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the Parliament of Great Britain (d. 1758) Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle, English noble and politician (d. 1758) August 16 – Réginald Outhier, French...
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Great Britain (b. 1751) February 21 – Silvestre de Sacy, French linguist (b. 1758) February 24 – Christoph Johann von Medem, German courtier (b. 1763) March...
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no doubt that Bouchardon will make of this fountain a fine piece of architecture; but what kind of fountain has only two faucets where the water porters...
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Salbeck, doctor of philosophy, priest of the Society of Jesus, and teacher (d. 1758) May 24 – Théodore Tronchin, Genevan physician (d. 1781) May 27 – Margaret...
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Quebec (section Art and architecture)
Officer Robert Monckton ordered the forceful expulsion of the Acadians. In 1758, on Île-Royale, British General James Wolfe besieged and captured the Fortress...
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Doha (redirect from Architecture of Doha)
Bibcode:2016NatCC...6..197P. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1038.3031. doi:10.1038/nclimate2833. ISSN 1758-6798. OCLC 7248753512. Archived (PDF) from the original on 27 April 2021...
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of Louisiana (d. 1776) May 1 – Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (d. 1758) May 2 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, French cellist and composer (d. 1747) May...
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England (James VII of Scotland) dies in exile, at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France. His supporters, the Jacobites, turn to his son James Francis...
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of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (5 ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN 0-14-051323-X. Curl, James Stevens (1999). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and...
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were taken to Georges Island in Halifax Harbour. En route to the St. John River Campaign in September 1758, Monckton sent Major Roger Morris of the 35th...
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Neoclassicism (redirect from Neoclassical Art and Architecture)
movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity...
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