1660s in architecture

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Buildings

1661 - Work begins on Versailles, near Paris.
1662
- King Charles Court of the Greenwich Hospital in London, designed by John Webb.
- Pažaislis Monastery founded (completed in 1755).
ca. 1663 - Kingston Lacy in Dorset designed by Roger Pratt.
1665
- Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, designed by Bernini is completed.
- New chapel at Pembroke College, Oxford, designed by Christopher Wren is completed.
1667 - Piazza of St Peter's in the Vatican City, designed by Bernini is completed.
1668 - Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford, England, designed by Christopher Wren is completed.

September 2 – September 5, 1666 - The Great Fire of London destroys most of the city.
1669 - Christopher Wren appointed Surveyor of the King's Works in England.

1660 - Jakob Prandtauer (d. 1726)
1661 - probable date of birth of Nicholas Hawksmoor
1661 - Daniel Marot (d. 1752)
January 24, 1664 - Sir John Vanbrugh (d. 1726)
March 15, 1666 George Bähr - German architect; designer of Protestant churches (d. 1738)
1668 - Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (d. 1745)
c. 1668 - Thomas Archer (d. 1743)