* 1173 – Construction of the campanile of the cathedral of Pisa ( now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa ) begins ; it will take two centuries to complete.

* 1420 – Construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore begins in Florence.

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

* 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada ( present-day Toronto, Ontario ).

* 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River.

* 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

* 2009 – Construction begins on the new Lansing City Market along the Grand River and the river trail in downtown Lansing.

* 1782 – Construction begins on the Grand Palace, the royal residence of the King of Siam in Bangkok, at the command of King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

* 1872 – Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins ; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.

* 1975 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.

* 1909 – Construction of the ill fated RMS Titanic begins.

* 1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.

* September 21 – Construction of the Rideau Canal begins in Canada.

* December 16 – Construction begins on the RMS Olympic at the Harland and Wolff Shipyards in Belfast.

* March – Construction begins on the Badger Army Ammunition Plant ( the largest in the United States during WWII ).

* Construction work begins in 1059 on the Parma Cathedral of Italy.

* Construction begins on the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1037.

* Construction of Richmond Castle in England begins in 1071.

* Construction begins on the Sassovivo Abbey of Foligno, Italy, in 1070.

* Construction of the Ponte della Maddalena bridge in the Province of Lucca, Italy begins in 1080.

* Construction begins on the Bagrati Cathedral in Georgia in 1003.

* Construction begins on the Great Zimbabwe National Monument, sometime in the century.

* Construction begins on the San Pietro in Vinculis in Pisa, Italy, in 1072.

* Construction begins on the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain in 1075.

* Construction of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins.

According to Mark Bollman, a mathematics and calculator historian and associate professor of mathematics at Albion College, the " Construction Master is the first in a long and profitable line of CI construction calculators " which carried them through the 1980s, 1990s, and to the present.

Construction crews also extended and upgraded the terminal building at Kumasi.

Construction continues on a bridge linking Guyana and Brazil at Lethem.

Construction of major railways connecting the larger cities and towns began in the 1830s but only gained momentum at the very end of the first Industrial Revolution.

* 1910 – Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at.

In 1615 he entered the service of Ogasawara Tadanao ( 小笠原忠直 ) of Harima Province, at Ogasawara's invitation, as a " Construction Supervisor ," after previously gaining skills in craft.

* 1648 – Construction of the Red Fort at Delhi is completed.

* Construction at Potsdamer Platz

Construction costs totaled approximately US $ 150 million at the time, which would be equivalent to roughly US $ 950 million in 2005.

Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's ( formerly North American Aviation / North American Rockwell, now Boeing North America ) principal assembly facility in Palmdale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

The armored cables were manufactured in southeast London at a factory in Erith, Kent, owned by Submarine Cables Ltd. ( owned jointly by Siemens Brothers & Company, Ltd, and The Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company, Ltd ).

The yard at Barrow became the " Naval Construction Yard ".

In 1901 the Royal Navy's first submarine, Holland 1, was launched at the Naval Construction Yard.

At his inauguration, O ' Dwyer celebrated to the song, " It's a Great Day for the Irish ," and addressed the 700 people gathered in Council Chambers at City Hall: " It is our high purpose to devote our whole time, our whole energy to do good work ..." He established the Office of City Construction Coordinator, appointing Robert Moses to the post, worked to have the permanent home of the United Nations located in Manhattan, presided over the first billion-dollar New York City budget, created a traffic department and raised the subway fare from five cents to ten cents.

* January 24 – Construction of Henry VII's Chapel at Westminster Abbey begins in the perpendicular style, the final stage of English gothic art.

* Construction at Great Zimbabwe begins ( approximate date ).

* 3250 – 3000 BC — Construction of three megalithic temples at Tarxien, Malta.

* Construction on the Liaodi Pagoda in Hebei is complete, the tallest pagoda in Chinese history standing at a height of 84 m ( 275 ft ) tall.

Construction is budgeted at $ 200 million, of which $ 50 million has been allocated from the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan ( SOFAZ ).

* Construction of the Duomo at Pisa in Tuscany begins.

Construction began in 1914 under the leadership of Charles Sumner Frost and took two years, at a total cost of $ 4. 5 million.