In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

When dam construction began in 1933, fewer than 600 boats used these waters ; ;

Racing began soon after the construction of the first successful gasoline-fueled automobiles.

Road construction first became a priority after 1750, when Zurich and Bern began appointing a governor for seven years.

The construction work began in November 1869 and the mosque was finished in 1871.

In 2010, Grant Speed's statue was taken down for refurbishment, and construction began on a new Walk of Fame.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

As construction began on the new site, more residences were constructed in the vicinity of the new campus.

In 2006, the Berkeley Oak Grove Protest began protesting construction of a new sports center annex to Memorial Stadium at the expense of a grove of oak trees on the UC campus.

In 1019 the construction of the cathedral of Basel ( known locally as the Münster ) began under German Emperor Heinrich II.

In 1503 the new bishop Christoph von Utenheim refused to give Basel a new constitution whereupon, to show its power, the city began the construction of a new city hall.

Chaplin paid yet more concern to story construction, and began treating the Tramp as " a sort of Pierrot.

Thereafter, he began a massive program of monumental construction, paradigmatic for which was the state temple called the Bayon.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

The eventual successful project, organised by Eurotunnel, began construction in 1988 and opened in 1994.

In 1928, construction of the Palomar Observatory began.

This project began with the construction and improvement of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, and was completed with the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that connects to the Illinois River, which flows into the Mississippi River.

File: Ukraine-Lviv-Latin Cathedral-4. jpg | Latin Cathedral in Lviv, construction began in 1360 on the King's order

In 1719, to further protect strategic interests in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River, France began the 20-year construction of a large fortress at Louisbourg on Île-Royale.

Simultaneous with the construction of railways in the region, the age of the wooden sailing ship began to come to an end, being replaced by larger and faster steel steam ships.

By 1827, construction on the Dayton-Cincinnati canal began as a way to better transport goods from Dayton to Cincinnati.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

* 793 (): Under the leadership of Dengyō, construction began on the Enryaku Temple.

The Fermis moved to Chicago in stages that year, and Enrico began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile Chicago Pile-1.

In 1906 construction began on the Post Office, with local cricketer George Wilder laying an inscribed brick.

In 1998 an agreement was signed between Portugal and Guinea-Bissau for construction of railway to Guinea.

A monorail mass transit system was under construction in Jakarta, but development ceased after the Asian Financial Crisis in 1998 and there is no indication that it will recommence in the near term.

In 1998 with the construction of many new smaller temples, Quilter was commissioned to create a new angel.

Moreover, the nationwide land leveling and rezoning campaign initiated by Kim Jong Il in Kangwon province in May 1998 and in North Pyongan province in January 2000 facilitated the construction of provincial and county fiber optic lines, which were laid by tens of thousands of KPA soldier-builders and provincial shock brigade members mobilized for the large-scale public works projects designed to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable lands devastated by the natural disasters in the late 1990s.

In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop the tower.

The next American space station project was Space Station Freedom, which was never completed, although it eventually led to the construction of the US Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, starting in 1998.

In 1998, there were 72 banks in Turkey ; most of which were owned by construction companies that used them as financial assets for siphoning money into their other operations.

Despite assurances made when he purchased the team in 1994 that the Whalers would remain in Hartford at least through 1998, in March 1997 owner Peter Karmanos announced that the team would move elsewhere after the 1996 – 97 season because of the team's inability to negotiate a satisfactory construction and lease package for a new arena in Hartford.

However, following the event, the number of reactors under construction in the U. S. declined every year from 1980 – 1998.

The construction of the Kenneth E. Cowan Civic Center in 1998 allowed Lebanon to serve as a site for numerous conventions, shows and events.

The North Terminal construction began in 1998 and was slated for completion in 2005, but was delayed several times due to cost overruns.

Still many smaller housing developments and some corporate centers have been constructed since 2000, the latter especially the Stony Hill Road corridor around I-95, beginning with office complexes 1000 to 1040 Stony Hill Road in 1998, followed by 600 to 800 Township Line Road ( at Township Line & Stony Hill ), 777 Township Line Road ( the first green building in Bucks County ), and a new age-restricted housing complex under construction at 645 Stony Hill Road, near the township's retail district.

The Department of Energy was to begin accepting spent fuel at the Yucca Mountain Repository by January 31, 1998 but did not do so because of a series of delays due to legal challenges, concerns over how to transport nuclear waste to the facility, and political pressures resulting in underfunding of the construction.

Actual construction did not begin until May 1988, and the bridge was opened for traffic on April 5, 1998.

The construction was completed in two phases: phase I in August 1997 and phase II in July 1998.

Suriqui is thought to be the last place where the art of reed boat construction survives, at least as late as 1998.

Originally the site of fishing villages, the island has been developed in recent years with the construction of Tung Chung New Town on its north-western coast and the completion of several major infrastructure projects, including Lantau Link ( 1997 ), Hong Kong International Airport ( 1998 ), Hong Kong Disneyland ( 2005 ) and Ngong Ping 360 ( 2006 ).

The theatre, the construction of which was largely financed by lottery grants from Arts Council England, opened in October 1998 with a production of Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood.

The main construction work took place 1997, and the stadium was inaugurated on 18 April 1998 in a league game against Lillestrøm, replacing Molde idrettspark as Molde's home ground.

The Steel Framing Alliance ( SFA ) was established by AISI in 1998 to accelerate the use of light-gauge steel framing in construction.

However, when construction was to commence in 1998, the ministry decided that the tower instead should be financed by the airport operator.

In 1998 a substantial construction programme was completed that included a successful multi-purpose shop ( Essentials ) and nightclub The Venue, this was in addition to the bar operated in the on-campus student village, known as " Woody's ", which opened in 1994.

and in 1998 a Heritage Lottery Fund grant of £ 375, 000 (£ as of ), for the construction of workshops to facilitate the restoration of historic vehicles.

Carroll became the CEO of Shell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the Chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation, an engineering and construction services firm.