• 1680 •
St Clement Danes,
London, designed by
Christopher Wren, is completed. •
Church of San Lorenzo, Turin, designed by
Guarino Guarini, is substantially completed. • Star Building at
Windsor Castle and
Cassiobury House in England, designed by
Hugh May, are completed; and his work on St George's Hall, Windsor Castle, is beginning. • 1681 • Basilica of
Santa Maria della Salute in
Venice, designed by
Baldassare Longhena in
1631, is dedicated. •
Sobieski Royal Chapel in
Gdańsk, designed by
Tylman van Gameren, is completed. •
Old Ship Church Puritan meeting house in
Hingham, Massachusetts, which will become the oldest church building in continuous ecclesiastical use in the United States, is erected. •
Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in
Zaragoza, Aragon, is begun to the design of
Francisco Herrera the Younger (completed
1754). • 1682 •
Abingdon County Hall in
Oxfordshire,
England, designed by
Christopher Kempster, is completed. •
Tom Tower at
Christ Church, Oxford, England, designed by
Christopher Wren, is completed. •
College of Matrons in
Salisbury, England, probably designed by Christopher Wren, is built. • Khan al-Wazir in
Aleppo is completed. in France ,
Palace of Versailles • 1683 • The Old
Ashmolean Museum in
Oxford, probably designed by the mason Thomas Wood, is opened, the first purpose-built university museum (the modern day
Museum of the History of Science). •
Ramsbury Manor in
Wiltshire, England, designed by
Robert Hooke, is completed (his
Ragley Hall in
Warwickshire is nearing completion at this time). •
Château de Dampierre in France, designed by
Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed. •
Église Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin (Paris), designed by
Pierre Bullet, is consecrated. • 1684 • The
Royal Hospital Kilmainham in
Dublin,
Ireland, designed by
William Robinson, is completed as a home for retired soldiers. • The
Hall of Mirrors at the
Palace of Versailles in France, designed by
Jules Hardouin Mansart, is completed. • The
Château de Marly in the
Marly-le-Roi commune is completed for Louis XIV. • The
Canal de l'Eure with its notable aqueduct, designed by the military engineer
Lieutenant Général Vauban to serve Versailles for Louis XIV, is begun; work is abandoned about 1690. •
Middle Temple gateway,
Fleet Street, London, designed by
Roger North, is completed. • The original
Kaohsiung Confucius Temple is built. • 1685 •
Ishak Pasha Palace in eastern Anatolia is begun. • 1686 • The
Het Loo Palace at
Apeldoorn in the Netherlands, designed by Jacob Roman and Johan van Swieten and begun in 1684, is completed; the garden is designed by
Claude Desgotz. •
Kinross House in Scotland, designed by
Sir William Bruce for himself, is begun. in
Derbyshire, England • 1687 •
Neanderkirche in
Düsseldorf (begun 1683) is completed. • The rebuilding of
Chatsworth House in
Derbyshire, England, begins under
William Talman. • The
Parthenon in Athens is extensively damaged in the
Morean War. • 1688 •
Belton House in
Lincolnshire, England, perhaps designed by
William Winde, is completed. •
Friends meeting house at
Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England. • 1689 •
Windsor Guildhall in
Berkshire, England, designed by Sir Thomas Fitz (or Fiddes), is completed by Christopher Wren. •
Swallowfield Park, near
Reading, Berkshire, England, is designed by
William Talman. •
Bieliński Palace in
Otwock Wielki, Poland, designed by
Tylman van Gameren, is completed. •
Lubomirski bathing pavilion at
Łazienki Palace,
Warsaw, Poland, designed by
Tylman van Gameren, is completed. ==Events==