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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, [1] gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.
Pudding Lane is a small street in London, widely known as the location of Thomas Farriner's bakery, where the Great Fire of London started in 1666. It runs between Eastcheap and Thames Street in the historic City of London, and intersects Monument Street, the site of Christopher Wren's Monument to the Great Fire.
1663 – Great Fire of Nagasaki destroys the port of Nagasaki in Japan. [7] Great Fire of London, 1666. 1666 – Great Fire of London of 1666, which originated in a baker's shop on Pudding Lane and destroyed much of London. 1675 – Great Fire of Northampton, England. The blaze was caused by sparks from an open fire in St. Mary's Street near ...
The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a fluted Doric column in London, England, situated near the northern end of London Bridge. Commemorating the Great Fire of London, it stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 feet (61.6 m) in height and 202 feet west of the spot ...
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.
Central London in 1666, with the burnt area shown in pink. This is a list of buildings that survived the Great Fire of London in 1666 and are still standing. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Further major fires of London are noted in 13th century London in the years 1220, 1227, and 1299, but none that had the impact of the Great Fire of 1212. Another fire broke out in 1633, [ 5 ] destroying 42 premises on the northern third of London Bridge and a further eighty buildings on Thames Street.
The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London Since Medieval Times (Methuen, 1987) Ciecieznski, N. J. "The Stench of Disease: Public Health and the Environment in Late-Medieval English towns and cities". Health, Culture and Society (2013) 4#1 pp: 91–104. Field, Jacob F. London, Londoners and the Great Fire of 1666: Disaster and Recovery ...