1786 in architecture

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The year 1786 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings.

Buildings completed

St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson

• Casa de Esteban de Luca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Creaking Pagoda, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, designed by Georg von Veldten.
• Golghar, Patna, India, built by Captain John Garstin.
• Henley Bridge, designed by William Hayward of Shrewsbury, who died before construction had begun.
• Schloss Bellevue in Berlin, Germany, designed by Philipp Daniel Boumann.
• St. Catherine's Cathedral, Kherson, Ukraine, built by General Ivan Gannibal.

Awards

• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Charles Percier.

Births

• January 23 - Auguste de Montferrand, French Neoclassical architect who worked primarily in Russia (died 1858)
• May 7 - John Watts, Irish military architect (died 1873)

Deaths

• February 28 - John Gwynn, English architect and civil engineer (born 1713)
• October 20 - Humphrey Sturt, British architect (born c.1725)