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Completes the reading room of the British Museum
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Sydney Smirke Biography and Timeline
Follow Sydney Smirke through 2 dated historical records for Great Britain.
Sydney Smirke, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
2Distinct records
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1857–1857Years on this page
1857
British Museum Reading Room Opens
Sydney Smirke designed the celebrated domed Reading Room which opened in the museum's central quadrangle in 1857.
Records, sources and methodology
These dates and descriptions come from the historical_events database. Exact duplicate records have been collapsed. Names are grouped by the country, Name 2 and Name 1 fields; records with missing Name 2 cannot be reliably assigned to an individual biography. Check the underlying sources before formal citation.