Editing 1690s in architecture

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==Buildings and structures==
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===Buildings===
[[File:Lhasa Potala.jpg|thumb|[[Potala Palace]]]]
* 1690
** The [[Sindone Chapel]] in [[Turin]], Piedmont, designed by [[Guarino Guarini]] is completed.
** The [[Barrage Vauban]], designed by [[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban|Vauban]] and built by [[Jacques Tarade]] in [[Strasbourg]], France, is completed
* 1690–1700 – Two Baroque palaces in [[Vilnius]], [[Sapieha Palace in Vilnius|Sapieha Palace]] and [[Slushko Palace]], designed by [[Pietro Perti]], are erected.
* 1689–1691 – [[Swallowfield Park]], near [[Reading, Berkshire]], England, designed by [[William Talman (architect)|William Talman]], is built.
* 1691–1697 – [[Branicki Palace, Białystok]], Poland, designed by [[Tylman van Gameren]], is built.
* 1692
** [[St. Kazimierz Church]], [[Warsaw]], Poland, designed by [[Tylman van Gameren]], is completed.
** [[Theatine Church, Munich]], Bavaria, designed by [[Agostino Barelli]] in 1662, is substantially completed to the design of [[Enrico Zuccalli]].
* 1694
** The [[Potala Palace]] in [[Lhasa]] is completed by construction of the Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace').
** The [[:File:Poland Nieborów Palace 007.jpg|Radziejowski Palace]] in [[Nieborów]], Poland, designed by [[Tylman van Gameren]], is built.
** The [[Chapel of the Holy Shroud]] in [[Turin]], begun by [[Amedeo di Castellamonte]] in 1668, is completed to the design of [[Guarino Guarini]].
* 1695 – [[Wren Library]], the library of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], England, designed by [[Christopher Wren]], is completed.
[[File:Cmglee Cambridge Trinity College Neviles Court.jpg|thumb|[[Wren Library]]]]
* 1695–1699 – [[Craigiehall]], near Edinburgh, Scotland, designed by Sir [[William Bruce (architect)|William Bruce]].
* 1696
** Main façades of [[Chatsworth House#The 1st Duke's Chatsworth|Chatsworth House]] completed to designs of [[William Talman (architect)|William Talman]] in a pioneering [[English Baroque]] style.
** Library of [[The Queen's College, Oxford]], designed locally, is completed.<ref name=Tyack>{{cite book|title=Oxford: An Architectural Guide|last=Tyack|first=Geoffrey|year=1998 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-14-071045-0}}</ref>
** Construction of [[Schönbrunn Palace]] in Vienna to the design of [[Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach]] begins.
* 1697 – [[:File:Троицкий собор (Соликамск).jpg|Trinity Cathedral]] in [[Solikamsk]], Russia (begun [[1683 in architecture|1683]]), is completed.
* 1698 – Fortified town of [[Neuf-Brisach]] in [[Alsace]], designed by [[Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban]], is begun.
* 1699 – [[Castle Howard]] in Yorkshire, England (completed [[1712 in architecture|1712]]), designed by Sir [[John Vanbrugh]] and [[Nicholas Hawksmoor]], is begun.

==Events==
* 1696 – [[Window tax]] is introduced in [[England]].
* 1697: May 7 – The 13th century royal [[Tre Kronor (castle)|Tre Kronor]] ("Three Crowns") castle in [[Stockholm]] burns to the ground; the plan for the replacement [[Stockholm Palace]] by [[Nicodemus Tessin the Younger]] is presented a few weeks later.

==Births==
* 1690 – [[Richard Cassels]], German-born architect working in Ireland (died [[1751 in architecture|1751]])
* 1691
** June 17 – [[Giovanni Paolo Panini]], Italian painter and architect (died [[1765 in architecture|1765]])
** September 1 – [[James Burrough (architect)|James Burrough]], English academic, amateur architect and antiquary (died [[1764 in architecture|1764]])
* 1692 – [[Pietro Antonio Trezzini]], Swiss architect working in Saint Petersburg (died after 1760)
* 1693
** January 29 – [[Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke|Henry, Lord Herbert]], later Earl of Pembroke, English courtier and architect (died [[1749 in architecture|1749]])
** September 13 – [[Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach]], Viennese architect (died [[1742 in architecture|1742]])
* 1694
** April 25 – [[Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington]], English aristocrat and architect (died [[1753 in architecture|1753]])
** September 26 – [[Martin Schmid]], Swiss Jesuit missionary, musician and architect working in Bolivia (died [[1772 in architecture|1772]])
* 1695
** April 19 – [[Roger Morris (1695–1749)|Roger Morris]], English architect (died [[1749 in architecture|1749]])
** October 23 – [[François de Cuvilliés]], Walloon-born dwarf and architect working in Bavaria (died [[1768 in architecture|1768]])
* 1696: September 14 ''(bapt.)'' – [[Batty Langley]], English garden architect (died 1751)
* 1698: October 23 – [[Ange-Jacques Gabriel]], French architect (died [[1782 in architecture|1782]])
* 1699
** [[Edward Lovett Pearce]], Irish architect (died [[1733 in architecture|1733]])
** ''(probable date)'' – [[Matthew Brettingham]], English architect (died [[1769 in architecture|1769]])

==Deaths==
* 1691: February 8 – [[Carlo Rainaldi]], Roman architect (born [[1611 in architecture|1611]])

==References==
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