1870s

The Grand Hotel National opens at Lucerne; César Ritz manages it from 1878

The Grand Hotel Wien opens on the Ringstrasse

Glenapp Castle is built in Ayrshire; it opens as a hotel in 2000

Ernest Cognacq opens La Samaritaine by the Pont Neuf

The Grand Hôtel du Cap is inaugurated in February with a fifteen-course dinner for a hundred guests

Savva Mamontov acquires Abramtsevo and makes it a colony for Russian artists

Crawford Market opens in Bombay in Norman and Flemish stone; its fountain is designed by Lockwood Kipling, father of Rudyard

Çırağan Palace is completed on the Bosphorus for Sultan Abdülaziz

Omar Nasseef Effendi, governor and merchant, begins Bayt Nassif on Souq Al Alawi; it is finished in 1881

The Mercado Central opens in Santiago, its iron frame prefabricated in England and shipped out

Brenners Park-Hotel opens at Baden-Baden; the Oetker family buys it in 1941 and builds the collection around it

Brenners Park-Hotel opens at Baden-Baden on the Lichtentaler Allee

The Eden Roc opens at Ascona on Lake Maggiore

The original Procope closes; the premises pass through a club and a restaurant

Zenichiro Kanaya opens a samurai house to foreign guests at Nikko

The Palais Hansen is built by Theophil Hansen for the Vienna World Exhibition; it opens as a hotel in 2013

Zenichiro Kanaya opens a samurai house at Nikko to foreign guests

Franz Landtmann opens his café on the Ringstrasse on 1 October

The Grand Hotel Timeo opens at Taormina below the Greek theatre

The Midland Grand opens at St Pancras, by George Gilbert Scott

The Imperial opens in Vienna for the World Exhibition, converted from a prince's palace

The Bürgenstock resort begins above Lake Lucerne

Giuseppe Mengoni's iron-and-glass Mercato Centrale opens at San Lorenzo, Florence

Printemps installs an iron bridge between its buildings and two lifts

Franz Joseph I appoints Demel Purveyor to the Imperial and Royal Court

The Grande Bretagne becomes a hotel on Syntagma Square

The Grand Hôtel opens in Stockholm on Blasieholmen

Le Richemond opens in Geneva under the Armleder family

The Palace opens in San Francisco; it is rebuilt after the 1906 earthquake and fire

The Grand Hotel Europe opens on 28 January at the corner of Nevsky and Mikhailovskaya — the first luxury house in Russia

Franz Xaver Mayr born at Gröbming, Styria, on 28 November

The Grand Hotel Europe opens on Nevsky Prospect

Caffè Gilli moves to its present Florence address

Café Central opens in the Palais Ferstel

Maupassant describes the Sube in Sur l'eau, calling it the Hôtel du Bailli de Suffren

The Oriental Bangkok dates its founding — a date set by the board in 1976 to permit a centenary

Eduard Sacher opens the Sacher opposite the Vienna opera

The Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme building rises on the rue de la Paix; it opens as a hotel in 2002

Sennosuke Yamaguchi opens the Fujiya at Hakone

The Fujiya Hotel is founded at Hakone for foreign guests

The Fujiya opens at Hakone, one of the first Western-style hotels in Japan

The Kulm installs the first electric light in Switzerland

Charles Garnier's Salle Garnier opens on 25 January; Sarah Bernhardt performs

The Zermatterhof opens, built by the commune of Zermatt itself

Villa Crespi is built at Orta in Moorish style for a cotton merchant