2.9.1666 – 5.9.1666

London

United Arab Emirates

The Great Fire of London was a blaze that engulfed four-fifths of London from 2 to 5 September 1666, with most of the buildings destroyed dating back to the Middle Ages. Around 100,000 people were made homeless, although officially a mere 9 people lost their lives. Only a few months previously London had been hit by a catastrophe of a different kind: the last Great Plague of London.

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