1856 in architecture

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The year 1856 in architecture involved some significant events.

Buildings

• Parliament House, Melbourne, Australia is completed.
• State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia is completed.
• The Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary taken into heaven and St Adalbert in Esztergom, Hungary is consecrated.

Awards

• Royal Gold Medal - William Tite.
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: (unknown).

Births

• February 12 - Hendrik Petrus Berlage (died 1934)
• September 3 - Louis Sullivan (died 1924)
• Eugène Vallin (died 1922)

Deaths

• David Laing (born 1774)