Buildings edit

• Holy Trinity Church (Berlin), designed by Christian August Naumann, completed.
• Church of Santa Felicita, Florence, rebuilt by Ferdinando Ruggieri, completed.
• Church of Saint Ildefonso, Porto, Portugal, inaugurated.
• New Room, Bristol, England (Wesleyan Methodist chapel).
• Amalienburg, Munich, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, completed.
• Schloss Meseberg, Germany.
• Prinz-Albrecht-Palais, Berlin, completed.
• Crowcombe Court, Somerset, England, designed by Thomas Parker, completed.
• Old Colony House, Newport, Rhode Island, designed by Richard Munday.
• Frescati House, Blackrock, Dublin, Ireland.
• Nahar Singh Mahal, Ballabhgarh, India (approximate date).
• Catherine Canal, Saint Petersburg, dug. ^[1]

• January 19 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect working in England (died 1808)
• February 15 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (died 1813)
• September 15 – Juan de Villanueva, Spanish architect (died 1811)
• date unknown – Antonio Cachia, Maltese architect, civil and military engineer and archaeologist (died 1813)

• May 10 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect (born 1686)
• Richard Munday, American colonial architect (born c.1685)