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| 0220 CE | At Baalbeck in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon the Romans constructed an incomplete acropolis that contained a Temple of Jupiter and a Temple of Bacchus. | |
| 1500 CE | Antwerp Cathedral was completed after 148 years of construction. | |
| 1502 CE | Donato Bramante began the Tempietto of S Pietro in Montorio, Rome. | |
| 1503 CE | Henry VII's chapel, the final stage of English gothic art, was begun in Westminster Abbey. | |
| 1506 CE | Bramante began to rebuild St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome, which had been neglected since the 14th century when the popes resided at Avignon. The project took 120 years to complete. | |
| 1508 CE | Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), Italian Renaissance architect, was born. | |
| 1508 CE | Michelangelo began painting (1508-1512) the Sistine Chapel in Rome. | |
| 1508 CE | Raphael at age 26 entered the service of Pope Julius II and was entrusted with the decoration of the new papal apartments. | |
| 1509 CE | In Lisbon, Portugal, the tile-bedecked church, Igreja de Madre de Deus, was built. | |
| 1511 CE | Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Italian painter, architect and art historian, was born. He wrote 'Lives of the Artists'. | |
| 1513 CE | Chartres Cathedral, near Paris, was completed after almost 400 years of work. | |
| 1513 CE | The Palazzo Farnese, a large and magnificent palace in Rome, was designed by Antonio de Sangallo the younger and Michelangelo. | |
| 1514 CE | Hampton Court Palace was begun for Wolsey. | |
| 1519 CE | The Chateau of Chombard was begun in France, and would take 30 years to finish. | |
| 1519 CE | St. George's Chapel, Windsor, England, was completed after 46 years of work. | |
| 1519 CE | The Italian influenced medieval church at the Moscow Monastery of Peter the Metropolitan was constructed. | |
| 1521 CE | The Chateau de Chenonceaux in the Loire Valley of France was built for the royal tax collector, Thomas Bohier. It took eight years to construct. | |
| 1525 CE | Spanish architects established the style of 'Plateresque', as exemplified by the gateway of the University of Salamanca. | |
| 1528 CE | In Mexico the fortress of San Juan de Ulua was built on a coral reef in Vera Cruz. It was later estimated that half-million slaves died in the process. | |
| 1534 CE | Regensburg Cathedral, Germany, was completed after 259 years of work. | |
| 1534 CE | The Church of St. Basil was begun in Moscow on what is now known as Red Square. | |
| 1535 CE | The summer palace of Prague Castle, The Belvedere, was begun with a design derived from Brunelleschi's foundling hospital in Florence. | |
| 1537 CE | Jacopo Sansovino began building the famous Old Library of St. Mark's, Venice. | |
| 1537 CE | Sebastiano Serlio, architect at the palace of Fontainbleau, published the first of six volumes of his 'Trattato di Architettura'. | |
| 1537 CE | The Spanish built La Fortaleza overlooking the bay on the southwestern edge of San Juan, Puerto Rico. | |
| 1539 CE | Michelangelo began to redesign the Capitol in Rome. | |
| 1540 CE | (1540-1580) In Vincenza, Italy, Palladio created a wide variety of palaces and public buildings. | |
| 1546 CE | Michelangelo designed the dome of St. Peter's in Rome. | |
| 1546 CE | Pierre Lescot, French architect, began the building of the Louvre in Paris. Francois I, needing more space for acquired works of art, started the construction of 2 new wings to the 12th century Louvre fortress. | |
| 1549 CE | Piro Ligorio designed the Villa d'Este at Tivoli for the Cardinal d'Este Ippolito II. | |
| 1550 CE | Palladio, Italian architect, designed the Villa Rotunda, Vincenza. It has four porticoes and symmetrical planning and is an example of his search for harmonious proportions. | |
| c. 1550 CE | In Moscow, Ivan the IV built a stone church to commemorate the triumph of Orthodoxy over Roman Catholicism, Islam and the Uniates, who sought to unite the Catholic and Orthodox churches. | |
| 1550 CE | Giorgio Vasari, Italian architect and painter, published his definitive 'Lives of the Artists', and founded the Fine Arts Academy in Florence. | |
| 1556 CE | (1556-1605) Akbar the Great during his reign built a walled Mughal fort at Hund in northern Pakistan, that now encloses a modern village. | |
| 1558 CE | Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm. | |
| 1559 CE | The Escorial, an enormous palace built on a grid plan for Philip II, was begun in Madrid. | |
| 1560 CE | Giorgio Vasari's commission for the Uffizi Palace took shape in Florence. | |
| 1561 CE | The Basilica of St. Basil in Moscow was completed after 26 years of work. | |
| 1562 CE | William Turner published a survey of spas in Europe. | |
| 1565 CE | Palladio finished S. Giorgio Maggiore Church in Venice. | |
| 1566 CE | Akbar began the construction of the Lahore Fort in northern Pakistan. | |
| 1567 CE | Longleat House was begun. It shows the impetus of the Reformation on English domestic architecture. | |
| 1567 CE | The Metropolitan Cathedral was begun in Mexico City. It took 250 years to complete. | |
| 1568 CE | Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire. | |
| 1570 CE | The Convento de Penha was built on a 164-meter cliff overlooking Vitoria in the state of Espiritu Santo, Brazil. | |
| 1570 CE | In Carrara, Italy, Alberigo, son of the mad Marquis Alberigo Cybo Malaspina, Lord of Carrara, inaugurated the use of gunpowder for quarrying marble. | |
| 1570 CE | In Switzerland the hotel Crusch Alva in Zuoz in the Engadine dates back to this time. | |
| 1570 CE | Palladio published 'I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura', a summary of classical architecture. | |
| 1571 CE | In Malta the Palace of the Grand Masters was begun. | |
| 1573 CE | Inigo Jones (1573-1652), father of English classical architecture, was born. | |
| 1573 CE | (1573-1577) In Malta the Cathedral of St. John was built. | |
| 1574 CE | Giorgio Vasari, completed Florence's Uffizi Palace after 14 years of building. | |
| 1575 CE | (1575-1649) In Mexico the construction of La Immaculada Concepcion cathedral in Puebla. | |
| 1576 CE | The basilica of San Petronio was erected by Egnatio Danti, a mathematician and Dominican friar who worked for Cosimo I dei Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The structure included a solar observatory. Danti also advised Pope Gregory on calendar reform. | |
| 1580 CE | Longleat Estate, Wiltshire, England, originally an Augustinian priory, was completed as an Italianate mansion. Longleat was built by Robert Smythson. | |
| 1580 CE | Palladio, Italian Renaissance architect, died. He designed the Teatro Olimpico in Vincenza just before his death. It was completed by Vincenzo Scamozzi. | |
| 1585 CE | An obelisk that had been brought from Egypt to Rome by the emperor Caligula was erected at the Vatican. | |
| 1586 CE | The Lateran Church of St. John, Rome, was rebuilt on the orders of Pope Sixtus V, who succeeded the late Gregory XIII. | |
| 1586 CE | Adriaen de Vries left Florence for Milan where he began working on the high altar for the Escorial near Madrid. | |
| 1587 CE | Inigo Jones, English architect and theatrical designer, began building Cobham Hall in Kent. It was finished by the Adam brothers. | |
| 1587 CE | The Rialto Bridge in Venice was begun by the Italian architect, Antonio da Ponte. | |
| 1587 CE | Osaka Castle, Japan, whose foundation had been laid by Hideyoshi in 1583 was completed with the help of 30,000 workers. | |
| 1588 CE | Domenico Fontana, Italian architect and engineer, completed the Vatican library in Rome. He also completed the cupola and lantern of St. Peter's in Rome. | |
| 1594 CE | In France Henry IV proposed his 'Grande Dessein' to join the Louvre with the nearby Tuileries palace, which had been built under Catherine de Medici. | |
| c. 1597 CE | The Sao Paulo church in Macao was constructed by Portuguese colonists. | |
| 1598 CE | Nicolas Francois Mansart (1598-1666), French architect, was born. The mansard roof is named after him. | |
| 1599 CE | The Takeda family, which controlled Hokkaido, changed its name to Matsumae, built a castle by that name and allied itself with Ieyasu Tokugawa, who was on the verge of establishing his Shogunate in Japan. | |
| c. 1600 CE | In France, the contractor Jean-Christophe Marie built bridges on the Seine to the Ile St. Louis and laid out lots on straight streets for sale. | |
| 1605 CE | In France Henry IV and his minister, Duc de Sully, decided to build a square over the former site of the Hotel Royal des Tournelles. The new square was named the Place Royale until the Revolution when it was renamed the Place des Vosges after the first administrative department, Les Vosges, that paid taxes. | |
| 1605 CE | Henry IV established a building code that set architectural themes and specified that pavilions had to owned by a single family. | |
| 1608 CE | Inigo Jones built an oak-paneled hall for Queen Elizabeth's ambassador to France. The room was later bought intact by William Randolph Hearst and shipped to New York. It was later purchased by the developer of the SF Cannery and shipped to SF. It was set up as the interior of Jack's. | |
| 1608 CE | In England Bess of Hardwick died at age 80. Know as the Dowager Countess of Shrewsbury, she built the Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. | |
| 1612 CE | In France the Pavillon du Roi, begun under Henri IV, was completed. It was occupied by the king's court and then the Duc de Sully, after which it was called the Hotel de Sully. | |
| 1613 CE | Andre Le Notre (1613-1700), French architect and landscape designer, was born. He shaped the gardens at Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, Marly, Chantilly, Saint Germain-en-Laye, Les Tuileries, saint cloud, Sceaux and Courances. | |
| 1620 CE | In Spain the Plaza Mayor, a grand, arcaded square in Madrid, dates to this time. | |
| 18 Nov 1626 CE | St. Peter's Cathedral, Rome, was dedicated. | |
| 1627 CE | (1627-1637) In northern Pakistan Jahangir's mausoleum on the right bank of the Navi River in Lahore was built by his son Shah Jahan. | |
| 1627 CE | In Norway the stave church at Vaga was rebuilt by architect Werner Olsen. His design included a few fragments of the original building. | |
| c. 1630 CE | Inigo Jones built the portico of London's Old St. Paul's Cathedral. | |
| 1632 CE | Cardinal Richelieu ordered the construction of the Palais Royale in Paris, France. It was expanded by the Duke of Orleans, who in the 1800s gave it its present form by enclosing the garden on three sides with buildings filled with commercial shops and income-producing apartments. | |
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