- Timeline of architecture
This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in
architecture and related disciplines includingstructural engineering ,landscape architecture andcity planning . One significant architectural achievement is listed for each year. __NOTOC__Articles for each year (in bold text, below) are summarized here with a significant event as a reference point.2000s
*2007 - Construction begins on the New Academic Center at
Westminster School (Connecticut) .
*2006 - Construction begins on theFreedom Tower , a replacement for theWorld Trade Center
*2005 -Xanadu House demolished.
*2004 - "30 St Mary Axe " designed by Norman Foster.
*2003 -Taipei 101 , designed byC.Y. Lee & Partners , becomes the tallest building in the world.
*2002 - Simmons Hall dormitory atMIT completed.
*2001 -Jewish Museum Berlin designed byDaniel Libeskind opens to the public.
*2000 - TheEmirates Towers are both completed.1990s
*1999 -
Jewish Museum Berlin , designed byDaniel Libeskind is completed.
*1998 -Petronas Twin Towers ,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , designed byCésar Pelli is completed. World tallest building 1998-2004.
*1998 -Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art bySteven Holl Architects, opens to the public.
*1997 -Guggenheim Museum Bilbao designed byFrank Gehry .
*1996 -Oscar Niemeyer completes theNiterói Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
*1996 -Aronoff Center for Design and Art ,University of Cincinnati completed byPeter Eisenman .
*1995 - Steven Holl Architects begin construction of St. Ignatius Chapel atSeattle University .
*1994 - Building of theBasel Signal Box byHerzog and de Meuron
*1993 - TheUmeda Sky Building inOsaka City,Japan is completed.
*1992 - TheBank of America Corporate Center inCharlotte, North Carolina is completed.
*1991 -Stansted Airport terminal building inEssex ,England , designed by Norman Foster, is completed.
*1990 -Frederick Weisman Museum of Art ,University of Minnesota completed byFrank Gehry .1980s
*1989 -
I. M. Pei 's pyramid addition to theLouvre is opened.
*1988 -MOMA Exhibition called Deconstructivist architecture opens.
*1987 - The Riga Radio & TV Tower inRiga ,Latvia is completed.
*1986 - TheLloyd's Building in London, designed byRichard Rogers , is completed.
*1985 - The HSBC Headquarters Building inHong Kong ,China by Norman Foster, is completed.
*1984 -Philip Johnson 'sAT&T Building opens inNew York City
*1983 -Xanadu House inKissimmee opened.
*1982 - Design competition is held for theParc de la Villette inParis .
*1981 -Richard Serra installs "Tilted Arc " in the Federal Plaza inNew York City .
*1980 -Santa Monica Place was constructed byFrank Gehry .1970s
*1979 - Charles Moore designs the
Piazza d'Italia inNew Orleans .
*1978 -Charles Eames dies.
*1977 - Frank Gehry redesigns his own house inSanta Monica, California .
*1976 - TheCN Tower inToronto opens as the tallest freestanding structure on land.
*1975 - Completion of theSeoul Tower inSeoul ,South Korea .
*1974 - National Assembly Building inDakka, Bangladesh , is completed.
*1973 - TheWorld Trade Center towers, designed byMinoru Yamasaki , are opened in New York.
*1972 - TheTransamerica Pyramid inSan Francisco ,California , designed byWilliam Pereira , is completed.
*1971 -Rothko Chapel inHouston, Texas , designed byMark Rothko andPhilip Johnson is completed.
*1970 - Construction begins on theSears Tower in Chicago, designed byBruce Graham andFazlur Khan (ofSkidmore, Owings, and Merrill ).1960s
*1969 -
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe andWalter Gropius die.
*1968 - Mies van der Rohe'sNew National Gallery inBerlin finished.
*1967 -Expo 67 inMontreal features the American pavilion, ageodesic dome designed byBuckminster Fuller , and theHabitat 67 housing complex designed byMoshe Safdie .
*1966 - TheGateway Arch by Eero Saarinen is finished inSt. Louis, Missouri .
*1965 -NASA 's Cape Canaveral VAB, the NiagaraSkylon Tower , theTel-Aviv Shalom Meir tower and theSalk Institute all open.
*1964 - TheUnisphere heads New York World's Fair.
*1963 - ThePalace of Assembly atChandigarh, India , is finished.
*1962 -Seattle Space needle &TWA Terminal by Saarinen at JFK are opened.
*1961 - Louis Kahn finishes theRichards Medical Building at theUniversity of Pennsylvania inPhiladelphia .
*1960 -Lucio Costa &Oscar Niemeyer plan buildings ofBrasilia , new capital ofBrazil .1950s
*1959 -
Frank Lloyd Wright 's Guggenheim Museum inNew York is finished after 16 years of work on the project.
*1958 - TheSeagram Building in New York designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe andPhilip Johnson is completed.
*1957 - TheInterbau 57 exposition of apartment blocks inBerlin features structures byAlvar Aalto , Walter Gropius and hisThe Architects' Collaborative (TAC), and an "unité " by Le Corbusier.
*1956 - Crown Hall at the IIT,Chicago , designed by Mies van der Rohe, finished.
*1955 - Completion of Le Corbusier'sNotre-Dame-du-Haut chapel atRonchamp, France .
*1954 - Louis Kahn finishes hisYale University Art Center in New Haven, CT, USA.
*1953 - Completion of theUnited Nations Headquarters in New York by a design team headed byWallace Harrison andMax Abramowitz .
*1952 - Le Corbusier completes hisUnité d'Habitation inMarseilles .
*1951 - Mies van der Rohe'sLake Shore Drive Apartments completed inChicago .
*1950 -Farnsworth House by Mies van der Rohe finished.1940s
*1949 - Charles and Ray Eames build the
Eames House , also known as Case Study House #8, inPacific Palisades , CA, USA.
*1948 -Pietro Belluschi completes theEquitable Building inPortland, Oregon .
*1947 -Alvar Aalto builds hisBaker House atMIT .
*1946 -Le Corbusier draws up plans forLa Rochelle -La Pallice , while his efforts to redesignSaint-Dié-des-Vosges (both cities inFrance ) are foiled.
*1945 -John Entenza launches theCase Study Houses Program through his post as editor of "Arts and Architecture " magazine.
*1944 - Frank Lloyd Wright builds the research tower for hisJohnson Wax Headquarters inRacine, Wisconsin .
*1943 -Oscar Niemeyer completes hisPampulha project in Brazil.
*1942 - Vichy rejects Le Corbusier'sObus E plan forAlgiers .
*1941 - Le Corbusier offers his services to theVichy regime.
*1940 -Peter Behrens dies.1930s
*1939 - The
1939 World's Fair in New York includes theFinnish Pavilion by Alvar Aalto and theBrazilian Pavilion byLucio Costa andOscar Niemeyer .
*1938 - Frank Lloyd Wright purchases convert|800|acre|km2 of land 26 miles away from Phoenix, and begins to buildTaliesin West , his winter home, inScottsdale, Arizona , USA
*1937 - Wright completes his houseFallingwater , atBear Run, Pennsylvania .
*1936 - Frank Lloyd Wright designs his monumental inward-lookingJohnson Wax Headquarters inRacine, Wisconsin , USA.
*1935 -Cass Gilbert 'sUnited States Supreme Court Building is posthumously finished.
*1934 - Frank Lloyd Wright draws up plans for his "Broadacre City ", a decentralized urban metropolis.
*1933 - TheBauhaus closes under Nazi pressure.
*1932 - TheMuseum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York holds its exhibition on modern architecture, coining the term "International Style."
*1931 - TheEmpire State Building , designed byShreve, Lamb and Harmon , becomes the tallest building in the world.
*1930 -William Van Alen completes theChrysler Building , an Art Decoskyscraper inNew York , USA.1920s
*1929 - "
Barcelona Pavilion " designed byLudwig Mies van der Rohe .
*1928 -Hector Guimard builds his last house in Paris.
*1927 - TheWeissenhof Estate , an exhibition of apartment houses designed by leading modern architects, held atStuttgart, Germany .
*1926 - Antoni Gaudí and Louis Majorelle die.
*1925 - "Bauhaus " atDessau designed byWalter Gropius .
*1924 -Gerrit Rietveld completes theSchröder House in Utrecht.
*1923 - Le Corbusier publishes "Vers une architecture (Toward an Architecture)", a summary of his ideas.
*1922 - "Monument to the Third International " designed byVladimir Tatlin (unbuilt).
*1921 - Frank Lloyd Wright completes hisHollyhock House forAline Barnsdall inLos Angeles , begun in 1917.
*1920 - TheEinstein Tower inPotsdam , designed byErich Mendelsohn , is completed.1910s
*1919 - Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus in
Weimar, Germany .
*1918 - Birth ofJørn Utzon , designer of theSydney Opera House .
*1917 -Georges Biet 'sArt Nouveau house and apartment building inNancy, France is severely damaged by combat shells, but will be rebuilt nearly exactly as before in 1922.
*1916 -De Stijl movement founded in theNetherlands .
*1915 - Le Corbusier completes studies for hisDom-ino Houses .
*1914 - Walter Gropius designs hisFagus Shoe Factory .
*1913 - Cass Gilbert completes theWoolworth Building in New York.
*1912 - Frank Lloyd Wright begins work on theAvery Coonley Playhouse ,Riverside, Illinois .
*1911 - Josef Hoffmann completes thePalais Stoclet in Brussels.
*1910 - Gaudí finishes theCasa Milà in Barcelona.1900s
*1909 - Frank Lloyd Wright completes the
Robie House near Chicago.
*1908 -Adolf Loos publishes his essay "Ornament and Crime ".
*1907 - Gaudí completes theCasa Batlló in Barcelona.
*1907 -Otto Wagner completes the Art Nouveau churcheKirche am Steinhof (also called the Church of St. Leopold) in Vienna.
*1906 -Lucien Weissenburger completes his own house, a striking example of theArt Nouveau style inNancy, France .
*1905 - Wright designsUnity Temple inOak Park, Illinois .
*1904 -Otto Wagner completes his Post Office Savings Bank Building in Vienna.
*1903 -Josef Hoffmann finishes theMoser House inVienna .
*1902 -Otto Wagner 's Viennese Stadtbahn railway system is completed.
*1901 - Peter Behrens completes his house at the Art Nouveau colony atDarmstadt, Germany .
*1900 - The Gare d'Orsay, now the famousMusée d'Orsay , is built in Paris byVictor Laloux .1890s
*1899 -
Hector Guimard is commissioned to design the edicules for the ParisMétropolitain , which have become a hallmark of Art Nouveau design.
*1898 - Victor Horta designs his own house, now theHorta Museum .
*1897 -Hendrik Berlage designs hisAmsterdam Stock Exchange .
*1896 -Eugène Vallin completes his own house and studio inNancy (France ), which is the first of many Art Nouveau structures built there by the members of the "École de Nancy ".
*1895 - TheBiltmore Estate , the largest house in the USA, is completed for theVanderbilt family inAsheville, North Carolina .
*1894 - Louis Sullivan builds the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, NY, USA.
*1893 -Victor Horta builds what is widely considered the first full-fledgedArt Nouveau structure, theHôtel Tassel , inBrussels .
*1892 - Modernist architectRichard Neutra is born.
*1891 -Louis Sullivan completes hisWainwright Building in Saint Louis.
*1890 - Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler build theAuditorium Building inChicago .1880s
*1889 - The
1889 Paris exhibition showcases some of the new technologies of iron, steel, and glass, including theEiffel Tower .
*1888 - The1888 World's Fair in Barcelona displays many buildings byLluís Domènech i Montaner and other Catalan architects.
*1887 - H. H. Richardson'sMarshall Field Store in Chicago is completed.
*1886 -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is born.
*1885 -William Le Baron Jenney builds the first metal-frame skyscraper, theHome Insurance Building , in Chicago.
*1884 - Gaudí is given the commission for theSagrada Família in Barcelona, which he will work on until 1926.
*1883 - Antoni Gaudí completes hisCasa Vicens in Barcelona.
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*1881 - TheNatural History Museum in London opens.
*1880 -Cologne Cathedral is finally completed after 632 years.1870s
*1879 - Louis Sullivan joins Dankmar Adler's firm in Chicago.
*1878 - Work begins on theHerrenchiemsee inBavaria , designed byGeorg Dollman .
*1877 -St Pancras railway station in London, by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is completed.
*1876 - Construction is finished on theBayreuth Festspielhaus , designed byGottfried Semper .
*1875 - TheOpéra Garnier is completed in Paris.
*1874 - Completion of theCalifornia State Capitol in Sacramento,California .
*1873 - Scots' Church inMelbourne, Australia is finished.
*1872 - TheAlbert Memorial in London, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, is opened.
*1871 - TheGreat Chicago Fire destroys most of the city, sparking a building boom there.
*1870 - Birth ofAdolf Loos .1860s
*1869 - Birth of
Georges Biet .
*1868 - Peter Behrens is born.
*1867 -William Le Baron Jenney opens his architectural practice in Chicago.
*1866 - Completion of theSt Pancras Hotel inLondon bySir George Gilbert Scott .
*1865 - Birth of French architectPaul Charbonnier .
*1864 - French Art Nouveau architectJules Lavirotte is born.
*1863 -U. S. Capitol building dome in Washington, D.C., is completed.
*1862 - Construction begins on Henri Labrouste's reading room at theBibliothèque Nationale de France (site Richelieu).
*1861 - Victor Horta is born.
*1860 - Construction on Longwood, the largestoctagonal residence in the USA, is begun inNatchez, Mississippi .1850s
*1859 - Birth of
Louis Majorelle andCass Gilbert .
*1858 - The competition to designCentral Park in New York is won byFrederick Law Olmsted andCalvert Vaux .
*1857 - Founding of theAmerican Institute of Architects .
*1856 -Louis Sullivan andEugène Vallin are born.
*1855 - ThePalais d'Industrie is built for the World's Fair in Paris.
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*1853 -Baron Haussmann becomes prefect of the Seine " _fr. département" and begins his vast urban renovations of Paris.
*1852 -Antoni Gaudí is born.
*1851 - "The Crystal Palace " designed byJoseph Paxton .
*1850 -Lluis Domènech í Montaner andJohn W. Root are born.1840s
*1849 -
John Ruskin 's "The Seven Lamps of Architecture " is published.
*1848 - Construction begins on theWashington Monument inWashington, D.C. , though it will not be completed until 1885.
*1847 -August 24 , birth ofCharles Follen McKim (died1909 ).
*1846 -September 4 , birth ofDaniel Burnham of the firm Burnham and Root.
*1845 -Trafalgar Square in London, designed by Charles Barry andJohn Nash , is completed.
*1844 - Uspensky Cathedral inKharkiv, Ukraine is completed.
*1843 - Construction begins onHenri Labrouste 'sBibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris.
*1842 - TheÉglise de la Madeleine is finally consecrated in Paris as a church.
*1841 - Birth of Otto Wagner.
*1840 - Construction begins on theHouses of Parliament in London, designed bySir Charles Barry andAugustus Welby Northmore Pugin .1830s
*1839 - Birth of
Frank Furness inPhiladelphia .
*1838 -Rideau Hall is built by Scottish architectThomas McKay .
*1837 - TheRoyal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is founded.
*1836 - A.W.N. Pugin publishes his "Contrasts ", a treatise on the morality of Catholic, Gothic architecture.
*1835 - TheNew Orleans Mint ,Dahlonega Mint , andCharlotte Mint are all designed by William Strickland and begin producing coins in three years.
*1834 -Alfred B. Mullet , designer of both the San Francisco and theCarson City Mint s in the USA, is born in Britain.
*1833 - William Strickland completes the firstPhiladelphia Mint building.
*1832 - William Le Baron Jenney is born.
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*1830 - TheAltes Museum in Berlin, designed byKarl Friedrich Schinkel , is completed after seven years of construction.1820s
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*1828 - Completion of theMarble Arch in London, designed by John Nash.
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*1826 - TheMenai Suspension Bridge over theMenai Strait , inWales , designed byThomas Telford , is completed.
*1825 - The front and rear porticoes of the White House are added to the building.
*1824 - TheShelbourne Hotel inDublin ,Ireland is completed.
*1823 - Work begins on theBritish Museum in London, designed by (Sir)Robert Smirke .
*1822 - Birth of landscape architectFrederick Law Olmsted .
*1821 - Karl Friedrich Schinkel completeds hisSchauspielhaus in Berlin.
*1820 - Death ofBenjamin Latrobe .1810s
*1819 - Birth of Sir
Horace Jones .
*1818 - Birth of American architectJames Renwick, Jr.
*1817 -Dulwich Picture Gallery in London is designed by Sir John Soane as the first purpose-built art gallery.
*1816 -Regent's Bridge , crossing theRiver Thames in central London, designed by James Walker, was opened.
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*1814 - British troops burn theWhite House in Washington, D.C., gutting it completely.
*1813 - Death ofAlexandre-Théodore Brongniart .
*1812 - TheEgyptian Hall in London, designed by P. F. Robinson, is completed.
*1811 - The United States Capitol, designed by Benjamin Latrobe is completed.
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*1809 - Birth of city planner
Baron Haussmann .
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*1807 - TheTemplo de Nuestra Señora del Carmen inCelaya , Guanajuato,Mexico is completed.
*1806 -Arc de Triomphe ,Paris fromJean Chalgrin commissioned byNapoleon Bonaparte .
*1805 - TheEllesmere Canal , designed byThomas Telford , is completed.
*1804 - Completion of theGovernment House in theBahamas .
*1803 - TheRaj Bhavan inKolkata, West Bengal ,India is finished.
*1802 - TheTemple of Saint Philip Neri inGuadalajara, Jalisco , Mexico is completed.
*1801 - Birth of Henri Labrouste.
*1800 - TheWhite House inWashington D.C. is completed by team of clientGeorge Washington , plannerPierre L'Enfant , and architectJames Hoban .1790s
*1799 - Death of French neoclassicist
Étienne-Louis Boullée .
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*1796 -Somerset House inLondon , designed by William Chambers is completed.
*1795 - Birth of architectCharles Barry .
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*1793 -Old East , the oldest publicuniversity building in the USA, is erected on the campus of the University of North Carolina, inChapel Hill, North Carolina .
*1792 -Sir John Soane begins work on his house inLondon , now theSoane Museum .
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot 's Panthéon inParis is completed by his studentJean-Baptiste Rondelet .
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*1786 -Schloss Bellevue inBerlin , designed byPhilipp Daniel Boumann , is completed.
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*1782 - Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart is named architect and controller-general of theÉcole Militaire in Paris.
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*1780 -August 29 - Death of Jacques-Germain Soufflot (b. 1713).1770s
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*1743 - TheDresden Frauenkirche ,Dresden ,Germany , is completed.
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Christ Church, Spitalfields inLondon is completed.
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*1726 - The remaining ruins ofLiverpool Castle are demolished.
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*1724 - The construction ofBlenheim Palace is completed.
*1723 -Mavisbank House inLoanhead ,Scotland is designed.
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*1708 -St. Paul's Cathedral inLondon , designed byChristopher Wren , is completed.
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*1705 - November: In Williamsburg, capital of theVirginia colony in America, construction of the Capitol building is completed.*1704 -
St Magnus-the-Martyr inLondon is completed.
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*1702 - TheThomaskirche inLiepzig ,Germany is completed.
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*1690s - The city of Noto,
Italy , onSicily , is devastated by an earthquake (1693), and a rebuilding program begins in theBaroque style.
*1680s - Church ofLes Invalides ,Paris is built byJules Hardouin-Mansart .
*1670s - TheRoyal Greenwich Observatory in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed (1676).
*1660s - Louis XIV, with the architectJules Hardouin-Mansart , begins to enlarge thePalace of Versailles (1661).
*1650s - Completion of the churchSant'Agnese in Agone in Rome, designed by Borromini andCarlo Rainaldi .
*1640s - Borromini builds the churchSant'Ivo alla Sapienza in Rome.
*1630s - EmperorShah Jahan constructTaj Mahal inAgra ,India .
*1630s - Borromini builds the churchSan Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
*1620s - Bernini constructs the church ofSanta Susanna in Rome (1624).
*1610s - Mohammadreza Isfahani buildsNaghsh-i Jahan Square inIsfahan ,Iran .
*1600s -33 pol bridge is constructed inIsfahan ,Iran .16th century
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Bernini andBorromini are born.
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*1530s - Work begins on thePiazza del Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill ), designed byMichelangelo .
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*1510s - Construction begins onChateau Chambord .
*1500s -Andrea Palladio is born.15th century
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Qutub Minar started inIndia
*1190s - Construction begins on the present form ofChartres Cathedral after a fire.
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Durham Cathedral founded
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*1070s -St Albans Cathedral commenced; built from the ruins of RomanVerulamium .
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*600s - St. Hripsime Church, one of the world's oldest surviving Churches, constructed.
*500s -Hagia Sophia built in its present form.
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*300s -Nalanda , Arguably the second oldest university in the world was built inGupta Empire inIndia
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*1-99 AD - EmperorsVespasian andTitus build theColosseum inRome .1st millennium BC
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*300s -Takshashila , The oldest university (Vedic University) in the world (According to some Historian) was built inIndian Subcontinent .
*400s - Completion of the final form of theParthenon inAthens (432 BC).
*500s - Work was begun onPersepolis .
*500s -Pataliputra , the modern dayPatna was built as the new capital of the empire ofMagadha inIndia
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*700s - According to legend, the city of Rome is founded (753 BC).
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*1700s - Rajagriha, modern daysRajgir , The capital city of the Legendary empire ofMagadha ruled by the semi mythical kingJarasandha was built in northern India.
*1800s - The lastEgypt ian pyramid was built inHawara
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*2600s -Mohenjo-daro , the ancient city ofIndia and modernPakistan was built.Great Pyramid of Giza was built inEgypt
*2700s -Pyramid of Djoser was constructed inEgypt
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*2900s - (2900 – 1600 BC) theLongsha culture inChina . Examples inShandong ,Henan , and southernShaanxi andShanxi provinces.Neolithic
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Harappa , the ancient city inIndia was built.
*5th millennium BC - (5000 – 3000 BC)Yangshao culture inChina .
*6th millennium BC - (6000 – 2000 BC) Emergence of wooden frames inChinese architecture including the use ofmortise and tenon joinery to build wood beamed houses.
*7th millennium BC -Catal Huyuk inAnatolia constructed without streets.
*8th millennium BC - Lahuradewa architecture in Ganges plains ofIndia
*8th millennium BC - EarlyMehrgarh settlement sites in Indian subcontinent.
*8th millennium BC - Earliest town sites with simple residential neighbourhoods inJarmo ,Jericho , andAin Ghazal on the Levantee also
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Table of years in architecture
*Timeline of architectural styles
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