Great Fire or The Great Fire may refer to:

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Great Fire of Rome The Great Fire of Rome ( la, incendium magnum Romae) occurred in July AD 64. The fire began in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium, Circus Maximus, on the night of 19 July. After six days, the fire was brought under control, but before ...

(64 A.D.) * Great Fire of North Walsham (1605) * 1615 Great Fire of Wymondham * Great fire of Meireki (1657) *

Great Fire of London 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 ...

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Great Fire of Northampton The Great Fire of Northampton occurred in September 1675 in Northampton in Northamptonshire, England. The blaze was caused by sparks from an open fire on St. Mary’s Street, near Northampton Castle. The fire devastated the town centre, destroying ...

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Great Fire of Warwick The Great Fire of Warwick was a major conflagration that swept through the small town of Warwick, England, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on 5 September 1694 and lasting for six hours. The fire started from a stray spark from the blacksmith located in ...

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Great Stockholm Fire of 1759 The Great Stockholm Fire of 1759 was the city’s greatest fire since 1686. It raged in the Eastern Södermalm on Thursday July 19 and over the following night, reduced about 20 blocks with about 300 houses to ash, and rendered about 2000 persons ...

* Great fire of Tartu (1775) *

Great Fire of New York (1776) The Great Fire of New York was a devastating fire that burned through the night of September 20, 1776, and into the morning of September 21, on the West Side of what then constituted New York City at the southern end of the island of Manhattan. ...

Great New Orleans Fire (1794) The Great New Orleans Fire (1794) was a fire that destroyed 212 structures in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 8, 1794, in the area now known as the French Quarter from Burgundy to Chartres Street, almost to the riverfront buildings. Another 856 ...

* Great New Orleans Fire (1788) * Great Fire of Bedford (1802) *

Great Fire of Stevenage Stevenage ( ) is a large town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Steven ...

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Great Podil fire The 1811 Great fire of Podil ( uk, Велика пожежа, ) occurred on the morning of July 9, 1811 in the historical and commercial neighborhood of Podil in Kiev (''Kyiv''), the capital of Ukraine. The fire lasted for three days and almost ...

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Great fire of Tirschenreuth The Great fire of Tirschenreuth took place on 30 July 1814 and destroyed nearly all of Tirschenreuth, a small town and regional centre in the east of Bavaria, close to the frontier with Bohemia. The great fire was the greatest catastrophe in the ...

(1814) * Great Fire of Edinburgh (1824) * Great Fire of New York (1835) * Great fire of Hamburg (1842) *

Great New York City Fire of 1845 The Great New York City Fire of 1845 broke out on July 19, 1845, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The fire started in a whale oil and candle manufacturing establishment and quickly spread to other wooden structures. It reached a warehouse on ...

Great Fire of Pittsburgh The Great Fire of Pittsburgh occurred on April 10, 1845, destroying a third of the city and causing between $6 million and $12 million in damage. While having little effect on the culture of the city except to spur further growth, it would provide ...

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Great Fire of 1846 The Great Fire of 1846 occurred in St. John's, Newfoundland, a colony of the United Kingdom on 9 June 1846. The fire started at the shop of a cabinetmaker named Hamlin, located on George Street off Queen Street, when a glue pot boiled over. The fir ...

* Great Fire of Toronto (1849) *

Great Fire of 1852 The Great Fire of 1852 was a fire in Montreal that began on July 8, 1852, and left as many as 10,000 people homeless (at a time when the city's population was only 57,000) and destroyed almost half of the city's housing. The fire occurred at a tim ...

Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead The great fire of Gateshead and Newcastle was a tragic and spectacular series of events starting on Friday 6 October 1854, in which a substantial amount of property in two North East England towns was destroyed in a series of fires and an ex ...

(1854) * Great fire of Brisbane (1864) *

1866 great fire of Portland, Maine The great fire of Portland, Maine, sometimes known as the 1866 great fire of Portland, occurred on July 4, 1866—the first Independence Day after the end of the American Civil War. Five years before the Great Chicago Fire, this was the gre ...

Great Fire of Whitstable, 1869 The Great Fire of Whitstable in 1869 devastated the coastal town of Whitstable in Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to ...

* Great Chicago Fire (1871) *

Great Michigan Fire The Great Michigan Fire was a series of simultaneous forest fires in the state of Michigan in the United States in 1871. They were possibly caused (or at least reinforced) by the same winds that fanned the Great Chicago Fire, the Peshtigo Fire ...

(1871) * Great Boston Fire of 1872 *

1877 Great Fire of Saint John, New Brunswick The Great Saint John Fire was an urban fire that devastated much of Saint John, New Brunswick in June 1877. It destroyed two-fifths of the city of Saint John. Fire At 2:30 on the afternoon of June 20, 1877, a spark fell into a bundle of hay in ...

Great Vancouver Fire The Great Vancouver Fire destroyed most of the newly incorporated city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on June 13, 1886. It started as two land clearing fires to the west of the city. The first fire was further away from the city and wa ...

(1886) * Great Seattle Fire (1889) * Great Baltimore Fire (1904) * Great Fire of Toronto (1904) *

Great Fire of 1910 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that burned in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into ...

* Centre Block great fire (1916) * Great Thessaloniki Fire of 1917 * Great fire of Smyrna (1922) *

Second Great Fire of London The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, leading ...

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Great Fire of Valparaíso The Great Fire of Valparaíso ( es, link=no, Gran Incendio de Valparaíso) started on 12 April 2014 at 16:40 local time (19:40 UTC), in the Hills of Valparaíso, hills of the city of Valparaíso, Chile. The wildfire destroyed at least 2,500 homes, ...

(2014)

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* ''The Great Fire'' (album), a 2012 album by Bleeding Through * ''The Great Fire'' (Murphy novel), a 1995 novel by Jim Murphy about the Great Chicago Fire * ''The Great Fire'' (TV series), a 2014 drama about the Great Fire of London * ''The Great Fire'' (Hazzard novel), a 2003 novel by Shirley Hazzard * The Great Fire (''Vanity Fair''), September 2020 issue of ''Vanity Fair'' guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates and dedicated to topics of racial justice * GreatFire, a non-profit organization monitoring internet censorship in China *"Great Fire", a song by XTC from '' Mummer''

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