The year 1783 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.
Events September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in Saint Petersburg, Russia, designed by Antonio Rinaldi, opens with a performance of Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna.
Buildings and structures Buildings completed New Vilnius Cathedral in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, designed by Laurynas Gucevičius, is consecrated. Façade of Carmelite Church, Warsaw, Poland, designed by Efraim Szreger, is completed Laleli Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey, is rebuilt after a fire.Laleli Complex . ArchNet. Boston Light (lighthouse) rebuilt on the site of an earlier one destroyed in the American Revolution.
Awards Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Antoine Vaudoyer.
Births May 14 – Giuseppe Jappelli, Venetian architect (died 1852) June 2 – Solomon Willard, Massachusetts craftsman, architect and builder (died 1861)
Deaths February 6 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect (born 1716)
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