1780 in architecture

Buildings • April 17 – Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in France, designed by Victor Louis is inaugurated. • June 24 – Chesme Church in Saint Petersburg, designed by Yury Felten, is consecrated. • Assumption Cathedral, Kharkiv, Ukraine, is consecrated. • Fragrant Hills Pagoda in China is completed. • Kashi Vishwanath Temple on the Ganges in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, is built. • Xumi Fushou Temple in Chengde Mountain Resort, China, is built. • Royal Villa of Monza in Lombardy, designed by Giuseppe Piermarini, is completed. • Reconstruction of Palazzo Tucci in Lucca, Tuscany by Ottaviano Diodati is commissioned. ==Births==

• October 1 – Robert Smirke, English architect (died 1867) ==Deaths==

• April 23 – Sanderson Miller, English Gothic Revival architect and landscape designer (born 1716) • August 29 – Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (born 1713) ==References==