1770 in architecture

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Overview of the events of 1770 in architecture

|  | List of years in architecture | (table)

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* … 1760
* 1761
* 1762
* 1763
* 1764
* 1765
* 1766

* 1767
* 1768
* 1769
* 1770
* 1771
* 1772
* 1773

* 1774
* 1775
* 1776
* 1777
* 1778
* 1779
* 1780 …

Buildings and structures

* Art
* Archaeology
* Architecture
* Literature
* Music
* Philosophy
* Science

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The year 1770 in architecture involved some significant events.

## Buildings and structures

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See also: Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1770

### Buildings

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Palace of Inquisition, Cartagena

* Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, England,[1] designed by Stiff Leadbetter and John Sanderson, completed
* Shire Hall, Nottingham, England, designed by James Gandon and Joseph Pickford, completed
* New National Mint of Bolivia in Potosí completed
* Palace of Inquisition in Cartagena, Viceroyalty of New Granada, completed about this date
* Liria Palace in Madrid, designed by Ventura Rodríguez, built about this date
* Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, probably designed by Manuel Alves Setúbal, consecrated
* Church of Santissimo Nome di Maria e degli Angeli Custodi, Genoa, begun in 1712, completed about this date
* Church of La Magdalena, Getafe, Spain, designed by Alonso de Covarrubias and Juan Gómez de Mora and begun in the 16th century, completed
* Wooden Saint Parascheva Church, Desești, Romania, built
* New Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré), Paris, designed by Pierre-Louis Moreau-Desproux, opened
* New L'Opéra of the Palace of Versailles, France, designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, opened
* College Edifice, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, designed by Robert Smith of Philadelphia, built
* Somerset House, Park Lane, London, designed and built by John Phillips, completed
* Zois Mansion in Ljubljana, Slovenia, completed
* Summer residences in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark, built about this date include
* Rolighed
* Store Godthåb, probably designed by Johan Christian Conradi
* Temple of Friendship in Sanssouci Park, Potsdam, Prussia, designed by Carl von Gontard, completed
* The Eryilou Fujian tulou in China is built
* Approximate date – Mesi Bridge in Ottoman Albania built

## Births

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* March 4 – Christian Zais, German architect and city planner (died 1820)
* 1765/1770 – Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845)
* Approximate date – Daniel Robertson, American-born British architect and garden designer (died 1849)

## Deaths

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* March 27 – José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish baroque architect and sculptor (born 1705)
* John Bastard, English architect working in Blandford Forum (born c.1688)
* George Tully, English architect working in Bristol

## References

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1. ^ "Hospital Records - Radcliffe Hospital". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 30 March 2019.