The Palais Garnier is an opera house in Paris, designed by the architect Charles Garnier after he won a competition in 1861. It was commissioned under Napoleon III as part of the rebuilding of Paris, but the Second Empire fell before it was finished, and it opened under the Third Republic. Its richly decorated Beaux-Arts style includes a grand staircase of marble, a huge chandelier and an auditorium whose ceiling was repainted by Marc Chagall in 1964. The building inspired Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera. After the Opéra Bastille opened in 1989 the Palais Garnier became mainly the home of the Paris Opera Ballet.
Before and after
- 1875Founding of Blackburn Rovers F.C.
- 1875Construction of Sacré-Cœur
- 1875Founding of Bombay Stock Exchange
- 1875Discovery of gallium
- 5 January 1875Construction of Palais Garnier
- 14 January 1875Birth of Albert Schweitzer
- 7 March 1875Birth of Maurice Ravel
- 26 March 1875Birth of Syngman Rhee
- 28 March 1875Earthquake in Lifou Island, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia
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- 10 August 1793Construction of Louvre Museum
- 1 November 1800Construction of White House
- 17 November 1869Construction of Suez Canal
- 1886Statue of Liberty
- 1894Radio
- c. 1900sRise of modernism
The era
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