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The Great Fire of London was a major ... the risk of future fire and allow any fire that did occur to be ... fire resulted in the emergence of the first insurance ...
The second of the two great medieval fires of London, also known as "the Great Fire of Suthwark" , began on 10 July 1212 in Southwark, the borough directly to the south of London Bridge. The flames destroyed Our Lady of the Canons ( Southwark Cathedral , also known as St Mary Overie) and strong southerly winds pushed them towards the bridge ...
She eventually died in the fire and was the first victim of the Great Fire of London. Wenceslas Hollar – London before and after the fire Wenceslas Hollar – St Paul's burning (Lex ignea) The Great Fire of London, with Ludgate and Old St. Paul's (c. 1670) Pudding Lane with the memorial column marking the ignition point of the fire of London
The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books.
1135 – Great Medieval London Fire of 1135. The first of the two Great Medieval Fires of London. This blaze was so severe that it destroyed most of the city between St Paul's and St Clement Danes in Westminster. 1137 – A Great Fire in Hangzhou, China, destroyed 10,000 houses. [2] 1157 – First Fire of Lübeck, Germany, destroys the city.
Hubert in the Pyrotechnica Loyalana (1667) receiving a fire-bomb from a Jesuit (perhaps William Harcourt, a Jesuit hanged after the Popish Plot), in front of a gallows. [1] Robert Hubert (c. 1640 – 27 October 1666) was a watchmaker [2] from Rouen, France, who was executed following his false confession of starting the Great Fire of London.
The complex was first built in the 1500s, though it was demolished and rebuilt in the 1700s. ... and narrowly escaped burning in the Great Fire of London in 1666. Somerset House is now the host of ...
An early fire of London destroys the wooden Anglo-Saxon cathedral, which is rebuilt in stone over the following decade. The Church of All Hallows-by-the-Tower is founded in the City by Barking Abbey. By 757 – London has come under the control of Æthelbald of Mercia and passes to Offa, who has a mint here. 798 – An early fire of London ...