Andrew Buchan
Thomas Farriner
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- 1. S1 E1 Oct 16, 2014
- Fire breaks out in London's Thomas Farriner's Pudding Lane bakery during the summer of 1666.
- 2. S1 E2 Oct 23, 2014
- Thomas flees the city with his family; Thomas's sister-in-law, Sarah, is imprisoned.
- 3. S1 E3 Oct 30, 2014
- Thomas returns to rescue Sarah and David; the king learns about a Catholic plot to unseat him.
The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.
Great Fire of London, (September 2–5, 1666), the worst fire in London’s history. It destroyed a large part of the City of London, including most of the civic buildings, old St. Paul’s Cathedral, 87 parish churches, and about 13,000 houses. On Sunday, September 2, 1666, the fire began accidentally.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 9, 2010 · Learn how the Great Fire of London broke out on September 2, 1666, in the house of King Charles II’s baker on Pudding Lane near London Bridge. It soon spread to Thames Street, where warehouses and churches were destroyed by the blaze. Miraculously, only 16 people died and the city was rebuilt by the end of the year.
Mar 13, 2024 · Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago. The fire, the most famous in American history, claimed about 300 lives, destroyed some 17,450 buildings, and caused $200 million in damage.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Great Fire of London burned day and night for almost four days in 1666 until only a tiny fraction of the City remained. It came hot on the heels of the Great Plague and left the world's third largest city of the time a shadow of its former self.
Jul 27, 2022 · One of the most famous disasters in London's history, the Great Fire of London in 1666 devastated the heart of England's capital, destroying more than 13,000 houses and badly damaging landmarks including St Paul's Cathedral and the Royal Exchange.
Jul 1, 2004 · The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again.
