great fire
11Great Fire of Meireki — Handscroll depicting scenes from the Great Fire of Meireki (kept at the Edo Tokyo Museum) The Great Fire of Meireki (明暦の大火, Meireki no taika …
12Great Fire of Rome — The Torches of Nero, by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire. The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: Magnum Incendium Romae) was an urban fire that occurred beginning July 19, AD 64.[1] …
13Great Fire of 1911 — The Great Fire of 1911 took place in city|Bangor|Maine.It started in the afternoon of April 30, 1911 on Broad Street. High winds had spread it to a shed on Exchange Street and the Universalist Church on Center Street by 4:10 PM, from where it… …
14Great Fire of Turku — The Great Fire of Turku ( fi. Turun palo and sv. Åbo brand) was a conflagration that is still the largest urban fire in the history of Finland and the Nordic countries. The fires started burning on September 4, 1827 in Burgher Hellman’s house on… …
15Great Fire of Warwick — The Great Fire of Warwick was a major conflagration that swept through the town of Warwick, England, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on September 5, 1694 and lasting for six hours. It started from a spark of a torch that was being carried up High Street.… …
16Great Fire of 1871 — The Great Fire of 1871 may refer to any of three fires in the Midwestern United States that began on October 8, 1871:* 1871 Great Chicago Fire * The Great Michigan Fire * Port Huron Fire of 1871 in Port Huron, Michigan * Peshtigo Fire in… …
17Great Fire of 1892 — The Great Fire in St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador on July 8, 1892, is remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall that city. At approximately five o clock in the afternoon on July 8, 1892, a dropped pipe in Timothy O Brien s stable at… …
18Great Fire of 1910 — The Great Fire of 1910 (also known as the Big Blowup and the Big Burn) was a wildfire which burned about three million acres (12,000 km²) in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, over two days (August 20 and… …
19Great Fire of Northampton — The Great Fire of Northampton occurred in 1675 in the town of Northampton in Northamptonshire, England. The blaze was caused by sparks from an open fire in St. Mary’s Street near Northampton castle, and devastated the town centre, destroying… …
