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Christopher Wren

English architect (1632–1723)

18 dated entries naming Christopher Wren, drawn from 14 separate years between 1632 CE and 1723 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1632October 20 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (died 1723)source
  • 1660November 28 – At Gresham College in London, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray meet after a lecture by Wren, and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning" (later known as the Royal Society).source
  • 166028 November – at Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Robert Moray, meet after a lecture by Wren and decide to found "a College for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning" (later known as the Royal Society).source
  • 1664Construction begins of the Sheldonian Theatre for university ceremonial in Oxford as designed by Christopher Wren.source
  • 166521 September – consecration of new chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Christopher Wren's first completed work of architecture.source
  • 166919 March – Christopher Wren appointed Surveyor of the King's Works.source
  • 1672Rebuilding begins of St Stephen Walbrook church in the City of London, designed by Christopher Wren.source
  • 1672Rebuilding of Temple Bar, London, designed by Christopher Wren.source
  • 1673November 14 – Christopher Wren is knighted in England.source
  • 1675June 21 – Reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral begins in London under the direction of Christopher Wren, to replace the portion destroyed by the Great Fire of London nine years earlier.source
  • 167521 June – reconstruction of St Paul's Cathedral in London under Christopher Wren begins to replace that destroyed by the Great Fire of London in 1666.source
  • 1676Construction begins on Trinity College Library in Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.source
  • 1684January – Edmond Halley, Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke have a conversation in which Hooke later claimed not only to have derived the inverse-square law, but also all the laws of planetary motion attributed to Sir Isaac Newton. Hooke's claim is that in a letter to Newton on 6 January 1680, he first stated the inverse-square law.source
  • 1689Windsor Guildhall in Berkshire, designed by Sir Thomas Fitz (or Fiddes), is completed by Christopher Wren.source
  • 1695Wren Library, Cambridge, the library of Trinity College, designed by Christopher Wren, is completed.source

18th century

  • 1711December 25 – The rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral in London to a design by Sir Christopher Wren is declared complete by Parliament; Old St Paul's had been destroyed by the 1666 Great Fire of London.source
  • 1723February 25 – Sir Christopher Wren, English architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)source
  • 172325 February – Sir Christopher Wren, architect, astronomer and mathematician (born 1632)source

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