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c. 5000 BCE
Almendres Cromlech erected in Portugal
3000 BCE
Construction of Stonehenge I
c. 2600 BCE-c. 2400 BCE
Ring of Brodgar erected in Orkney Islands; the date is uncertain because it has not been excavated
2100 BCE
Construction of Stonehenge II
2100 BCE
Construction of the Ziggurat of Ur
2000 BCE
Construction of Stonehenge III
1900 BCE
About 20 bluestones from Stonehenge II are erected in a horseshoe shape inside the sarsen horseshoe in the center of Stonehenge III.
1306 BCE
Construction of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak Temple
1290 BCE
Temple of Ramses II carved at Abu Simbel
1194 BCE
Temple complex of Ramses III built at Medinet Habu
447 BCE
Construction begins on the Parthenon in Athens.
107 BCE
The Area Sacra di Largo Argentina is enclosed by a tufa wall on the east side and a portico on the other three sides by the consul M. Minucius Rufus, following his victory over a Thracian tribe.
55 BCE
Construction of the Theater and Portico of Pompey in the temple precinct of the Area Sacra di Largo Argentina.
27 BCE
Marcus Agrippa constructs the Pantheon
19 BCE
Herod rebuilds the Temple in Jerusalem.
50 CE
Construction of the Temple of Aphrodite
55 CE
Shortly after Cologne (Colonia) becomes a Roman city, a Roman temple is built to the Capitoline Triad: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. The temple was roughly square-shaped, 30m on a side, and had three cella. It has been replaced by the church of St. Maria i
70 CE
Construction begins on the Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum) under Emperor Vespasian, on the site of an artificial lake created by Nero in front of his Domus Aurea palace (later filled in)
80 CE
Completion of the Colosseum under Emperor Titus
122 CE
Construction of Hadrian's Wall
125 CE
Hadrian rebuilds the Pantheon
315
Construction of the Arch of Constantine
324
Constantine commissions St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
326
Constantine the Great begins construction on Trier Cathedral on the site of his mother Helena's imperial palace. Four times larger than the present cathedral, it occupies the site of the present cathedral, the Leibfrauenkirche, Cathedral Square, the adjoi
330
Construction of the Church of the Holy Apostles, commissioned by Constantine
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