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===Buildings=== [[File:Kingston Lacy House (South).jpg|thumb|[[Kingston Lacy]] in [[Dorset]], England]] [[File:Sheldonian Theatre Oxford.jpg|thumb|[[Sheldonian Theatre]], [[Oxford]]]] * 1660 ** [[Moti Masjid (Red Fort)|Moti Masjid]] (Pearl [[Mosque]]) in the [[Red Fort]] of [[Old Delhi|Delhi]] completed. ** [[Teele Wali Masjid]], Lucknow in the regin of Mughal Emperor [[Aurangzeb]], Built in the supervision of [[Fidai Khan Koka]], completed. ** Tilya-Kori Madrasah in the [[Registan]] of [[Samarkand]] completed (begun in [[1646 in architecture|1646]]). * 1661 ** [[Vaux-le-Vicomte|Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte]], designed by [[Louis Le Vau]], completed. ** Work begun on [[Palace of Versailles|Versailles]], near [[Paris]]. * 1662 ** King Charles Court of the [[Greenwich Hospital (London)|Greenwich Hospital]] in [[London]], designed by [[John Webb (architect)|John Webb]]. ** [[Pažaislis Monastery]] founded (completed in 1755). ** [[Coleshill House]] in the [[Vale of White Horse]], [[England]], designed by [[Roger Pratt (architect)|Roger Pratt]], completed (begun in 1649). ** [[Groombridge Place]] in [[Kent]], England, built by [[Philip Packer]] for himself. * 1663 ** [[Galerie d'Apollon]] at the [[Louvre Palace]], designed by [[Louis Le Vau]], completed. ** [[arsenal of Civitavecchia]], designed by [[Gianlorenzo Bernini]], completed (begun in 1660). * 1664 **Eltham Lodge near London, designed by [[Hugh May]], completed. * 1665 ** [[Sant'Andrea al Quirinale]] in [[Rome]], designed by [[Bernini]], completed. ** Designs for [[Louvre Palace]] façade by [[Bernini]] (unbuilt). ** [[Kingston Lacy]] in [[Dorset]], designed by [[Roger Pratt (architect)|Roger Pratt]], completed (begun in 1663). ** Horseheath Hall in [[Cambridgeshire]], designed by [[Roger Pratt (architect)|Roger Pratt]], completed (begun in 1663). ** [[Petersberg Citadel]], Erfurt, Germany foundation stone laid (June 1). ** New chapel at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]], England, [[Christopher Wren]]'s first completed work of architecture, dedicated (September 21). ** [[Chapel of Brasenose College, Oxford]] consecrated. * 1666 ** [[Scala Regia (Vatican)|Scala Regia]] in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]], designed by [[Bernini]], completed. ** Plans for rebuilding [[London]] by various leading citizens, including [[Christopher Wren]], [[Robert Hooke]], and [[John Evelyn]]. * 1667 ** [[Saint Peter's Square]] in the [[Vatican City]], designed by [[Bernini]], completed. ** [[Louvre Palace]] façade, designed by [[Claude Perrault]], begun (completed in 1674). ** [[Val-de-Grâce|Church of the Val-de-Grâce]], designed by [[François Mansart]] and [[Jacques Lemercier]], completed (begun in 1645). ** [[Clarendon House]] in London, designed by [[Roger Pratt (architect)|Roger Pratt]], completed (begun in 1664). ** [[Santa Maria in Campitelli]] in [[Rome]], designed by [[Carlo Rainaldi]], completed. ** [[Opernhaus am Taschenberg]] in [[Dresden]], designed by [[Wolf Caspar von Klengel]], opened (January 27). * 1668 ** [[San Lorenzo, Turin|San Lorenzo]] in [[Turin]], designed by [[Guarino Guarini]], begun (completed in 1687). * 1669 ** [[Sheldonian Theatre]] in [[Oxford]], England, designed by [[Christopher Wren]] for University ceremonial, inaugurated (July 9). ** Second [[Royal Exchange, London]], designed by Edward Jarman, opened (September 28). ** [[Alamgir Mosque, Varanasi]], built.
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