The Enlightenment & New Town · event 8 of 8

1826

The National Monument is begun. A full-size Parthenon is started on Calton Hill and abandoned three years later after twelve columns. Edinburgh has called it Scotland’s Disgrace ever since.

The The Enlightenment & New Town era

  1. 1745
  2. 1759
  3. 1767
  4. 1768
  5. 1776
  6. 1785
  7. 1822
  8. 1826

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