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The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, [b] gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.
2–5 September – Great Fire of London: A large fire breaks out in the City of London in the house of baker Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. The fire destroys more than 13,000 buildings including Old St Paul's Cathedral but only 6 people are known to have died. [2]
Thomas Farriner (sometimes written as Faynor or Farynor; c. 1615 – 20 December 1670) was an English baker and churchwarden [1] in 17th century London.Allegedly, his bakery in Pudding Lane was the source point for the Great Fire of London on 2 September 1666.
August 4: The Dutch Navy fails to invade the British Isles after the English triumph in the St. James's Day Battle. 1666 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1666th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 666th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 17th century, and ...
September 2 in recent years ... 2020 (Wednesday) 2019 (Monday) 2018 (Sunday) ... 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sunday, 2 September 1666. The wind was driving the fire westward, so he ordered the boat to go to Whitehall and became the first person to inform the king of the fire. According to his entry of 2 September 1666, Pepys recommended to the king that homes be pulled down in the path of the fire in order to stem its progress.
The Great Plague was immediately followed by another catastrophe, albeit one which helped to put an end to the plague. On the Sunday, 2 September 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a bakery in Pudding Lane in the southern part of the City. Fanned by an eastern wind the fire spread, and efforts to arrest it ...
Soon after midnight on Sunday, 2 September 1666, a fire started in Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane, 0.7 kilometres (0.43 mi) to the southeast of St. Mary-le-Bow. During the course of the night, the easterly wind spread the fire through the city , consuming 300 houses in the first night alone.