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===Buildings=== [[File:PaternosterSquare-TempleBar.jpg|thumb|[[Temple Bar, London]] in 2004 location]] [[File:Main chamber of Badshahi Mosque 2006.jpg|thumb|[[Badshahi Masjid]], Lahore]] [[File:White Horse Tavern Sign.jpg|thumb|[[White Horse Tavern (Newport, Rhode Island)|The White Horse Tavern]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]]]] * 1670 ** [[Báo Quốc Pagoda]], [[Huế]], Vietnam, is built. ** [[Saint George Palace]], [[Rennes]], France, has its foundation stones laid. * 1671 – [[Weston Park]], [[Shropshire]], England, is built for [[Elizabeth Wilbraham]]. * 1672 ** Buildings by [[Christopher Wren]] in England: *** [[Temple Bar, London]] rebuilt. *** Williamson Building at [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], completed.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Queen’s College, Oxford|first=Holly|last=Kirkwood|date=2014-08-17|url=http://www.countrylife.co.uk/life-in-the-country/queens-college-oxford-60488#Ych0y1bHOjB6blCS.99|work=[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]|location=London|accessdate=2015-02-26}}</ref> ** Church of [[Monastery of Serra do Pilar]] in Gaia, Portugal, consecrated. ** Construction of [[Castillo de San Marcos]] at [[St. Augustine, Florida]], designed by Ignacio Daza, begins. * 1673 ** April – [[Badshahi Masjid]] in [[Lahore]], [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], built for [[Aurangzeb]], is completed. ** October 3 – [[Kintai Bridge]] in [[Iwakuni]], [[Suō Province]] (modern-day [[Yamaguchi Prefecture]]), Japan, is officially completed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=[Kintaikyo Bridge] Iwakuni city Homepage > Summary|url=http://kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net/en/summary.html|access-date=2022-02-02|website=kintaikyo.iwakuni-city.net}}</ref> ** [[White Horse Tavern (Newport, Rhode Island)|The White Horse Tavern]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] (estimated completion date) ** [[St Mary-le-Bow]] church in London, designed by [[Christopher Wren]], rebuilding completed. ** [[Monastery of San Francisco, Lima]], Peru, is consecrated (completed [[1774 in architecture|1774]]). ** [[Berkeley House, London]], designed by [[Hugh May]] and begun in 1665, is completed. * 1675 ** June – Work on the new [[St Paul's Cathedral]] in London, designed by [[Christopher Wren]], begins. ** June 11 – [[Theatine Church, Munich]], consecrated in form as left by [[Agostino Barelli]]. ** August 2 – [[Portuguese Synagogue (Amsterdam)]], designed by Elias Bouwman and begun in 1671, is completed. ** [[Bethlem Royal Hospital]] in [[London]], designed by [[Robert Hooke]]. ** [[Briggflatts Meeting House]] near [[Sedbergh]] in north-west England built. * 1676 ** The [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]] in London, designed by [[Christopher Wren]] is completed. ** [[Wren Library, Cambridge]], the library of [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], England, is designed by [[Christopher Wren]] (completed 1695). ** Main courtyards of [[Les Invalides]] in [[Paris]], designed by [[Libéral Bruant]], are completed. ** [[Skokloster Castle]] in Sweden, designed by Caspar Vogel with [[Jean de la Vallée]] and [[Nicodemus Tessin the Elder]], is completed. ** [[St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Vilnius]] is completed. [[File:Emmanuel College Front Court, Cambridge, UK - Diliff.jpg|thumb|The [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]]] * 1677 ** The [[Monument to the Great Fire of London]], designed by [[Christopher Wren]] and [[Robert Hooke]] is completed. ** Chapel of [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]], designed by [[Christopher Wren]]. ** Remodelling of [[Cornbury Park#Cornbury House|Cornbury House]] in Oxfordshire, England, designed by [[Hugh May]] and begun about 1663, is completed. * 1679 ** Chapel (''Église Saint-Louis des Invalides'') at [[Les Invalides]], Paris, is completed to the design of [[Libéral Bruant]]. ** [[Černín Palace]] in [[Prague]], designed by Francesco Caratti, is completed. ** [[Montagu House, Bloomsbury]], London, designed by [[Robert Hooke]], is completed.
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