Great Fire of London
Stuart-era urban inferno
The Great Fire of London was a catastrophic blaze that swept through central London in September 1666, destroying most of the medieval City including St.
Paul's Cathedral and leaving tens of thousands homeless.
The fire burned for four days after starting in a bakery on Pudding Lane.
It prompted major rebuilding and fire-safety reforms that shaped modern London.
- conflagrationLarge destructive blaze
- burnt downDestroyed by fire
- rebuildingConstructing anew after destruction
- firebreaksVegetation-free zones halting conflagration
- Charles IIRestored English sovereign
King Charles · Christopher Wren · St Paul's Cathedral · timber-framed houses · bakery · homelessness · Restoration · disaster · stone construction · city planning · insurance claims · cinders · diaries · bucket · sparks · fire prevention · 1666 · regulations
- fireflame, blaze, flames, inferno, embers
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, Elizabethan era, English Civil War, Tudor era
- 1660sCharles II, Louis XIV, Paradise Lost, Royal Society, Rembrandt
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- European HistoryFrench Revolution, Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Industrial Revolution
- Wildfireswildfire, grass fire, surface fire, spot fire, fire front