January 12, 1837 (December 31, 1836, old style) has been founded in Athens by Royal Decree a Sunday training school for technicians.
Indeed, in 1837, a young Bavarian, the officer in the engineering corps Friedrich R. von Zentner, was entrusted to train on Sundays qualified workers and foremen for building. These men were needed for the transformation of Athens from a village to the capital of the new state, proud of its neo-classical buildings designed by Architects who came from abroad: the Palace, the University, the Archeological Museum, the Observatory etc.