
The Quadrant, Regent Street, London (1928)
Designer: Blomfield, Sir Reginald (1856-1942)
Copyright: Joe Low/RIBA British Architectural Library Photographs Collection (c1990)
1910 - Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
1911 - Wilhelm Dorpfeld
1912 - Basil Champneys
1913 - Sir Reginald Blomfield|
1914 - Jean Louis Pascal, France
1915 - Frank Darling, Canada
1916 - Sir Robert Rowand Anderson
1917 - Henri Paul Nenot, France
1918 - Ernest Newton
1919 - Leonard Stokes
RGM in historical context - world events in this decade
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1910
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George V begins his reign as King of the United Kingdom, as well as other Commonwealth Realms. He is Emperor of India and the first King of the Irish Free State.
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Casa Milà in Barcelona, designed by Antoni Gaudí is completed.
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1913
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The re-built Grand Central Station opens in New York.
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1914
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The Panama Canal opens
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The Sacre Coeur in Paris, designed by Paul Abadie, is completed after 14 years.
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Work is completed on Park Guell in Barcelona, designed by Antonio Gaudi.
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, triggers a train of events leading to the outbreak of World War I.
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The First World War breaks out and lasts until 1918.
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1916
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The Easter Rising is staged in Ireland in Easter Week, an attempt by militant Irish republicans to win independence from Britain. It is suppressed after six days of fighting.
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1917
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The October Revolution begins with an armed insurrection in Petrograd. Led by the Bolsheviks, it overthrows the Russian Provisional Government. It is followed by the Russian Civil War which lasts until 1922.
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1918
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Germany signs the Treaty of Versailles, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
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1919
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The Bauhaus is founded in Weimar by Walter Gropius.
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