Great Fire of London
September 2, 1666
A fire that started in a bakery on Pudding Lane, fanned by an east wind and dry summer, burned for four days and destroyed thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, and old Saint Paul's Cathedral. Only a handful of people died; the Plague was cauterized with the rubble. Christopher Wren would rebuild the City.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.