1400s in architecture

Buildings and structures

Buildings

• 1402 – Seville Cathedral is begun.
• 1402 – Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic is completed.
• 1403
• The Gur-e-Amir Mausoleum in Samarkand is begun on the orders of Timur.
• The City God Temple of Shanghai is built.
• 1405
• The Changdeokgung of Korea is completed.
• Construction of new Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkistan (Timurid Empire) ceases.
• 1407 – Swalcliffe Tithe Barn in Oxfordshire, England, is completed.
• 1409
• The Upper Castle in Vilnius in Lithuania is completed.
• The Trakai Island Castle at Trakai in Lithuania is completed.

Births

• c. 1400 – Filarete, born Antonio di Pietro Averlino, Florentine architect (died c. 1469)
• 1404: February 14 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian architect and polymath (died 1472)

Deaths

• 1400: August 21 – Henry Yevele, English master mason (born c. 1320)

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