The Five Days in September 1666 That Burned Down Most of Medieval London
The Great Fire of London began in a Pudding Lane bakery on the night of 2 September 1666 and burned for five days, destroying about 13,200 houses and most of the medieval City. It killed almost nobody — official records list six dead — but ended the 1665 plague and gave Christopher Wren the largest urban-rebuilding contract in English history.
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