Custom House, Leith, Edinburgh, designed by Robert Reid, completed.
HM Prison Perth, Scotland, designed by Robert Reid, completed.
The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
date unknown – Cosimo Morelli, Italian neoclassical architect (born 1732)
References
^Lewin, Henry Grote (1925). Early British Railways. A short history of their origin & development: 1801–1844. London: The Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd.
^Awdry, Christopher, (1990). Encyclopaedia of British Railway Companies. London: Guild Publishing.