Globe Theatre Burns Down
June 29, 1613
During a performance of Henry VIII, a stage cannon set fire to the thatched roof of the Globe and the theatre burned to the ground within an hour. No one died but one man's breeches, which an onlooker doused with ale. The Globe would be rebuilt in a year, with tiles.
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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