The Great Fire of London, which occurred from September 2 to 5, 1666, was the worst fire in the history of London, England. The fire burned the entire city for four consecutive days, including 87 churches, 44 companies and 13,000 houses. All were burned, and about one-sixth of the buildings in London, the largest city in Europe, were burned, including St Paul's Cathedral.

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On Sunday, September 2, 1666, around 1 o¡¯clock in the morning, a Pudding Lane in London was destroyed by a fire, which quickly blasted a few narrow streets of wooden houses and then entered some warehouses on the northern bank of the Thames River. The fire burned the whole city for four consecutive days, including 87 churches, 44 companies and 13,000 residential houses, and about one-sixth of the buildings in London, Europe¡¯s largest city, were destroyed. Later, a monument was erected near the Pudding Street, 61.5 meters high, with a total of 311 floors and a circle surrounded by flames, designed by the British astronomer and architect Sir Christopher Wren, and 51 of the 54 churches he re-designed, including the famous Cathedral of St Paul.

The pillars of the Great Fire Monument in London are Doric in ancient Roman style. The monument is cylindrical with grooves, and the column is hollow. There are 311 spiral stairs leading directly to the top of the monument, where you can overlook the scenery of the City of London. The iron railings of the observation platform are all recast with melted iron in those days.

Fire and Plague

In the year before the Great Fire of London (1665) broke out the plague in Europe, in the area of London alone, more than sixty thousand people died. In the three months since June 1665, the population of London decreased by one-tenth. The plague spread from London, the British royal family escaped from London to Oxford, and the wealthy people in the city were rushing to escape with their households, and the houses of the sick were stamped with red pencil. In London there was no more troubling trial problems, because the legal community had all migrated to the countryside. On September 2, 1666, at 2 o¡¯clock, a Buddhist street baker from London forgot to close the burial furnace, making the fire unrecoverable, and Buddhist streets in the center

Only five people were killed in the London Fire. Most citizens had plenty of time to escape the disaster area, which was a great fortune among misfortune. London's post roads were crowded with hand-pushed carts loaded with various family property. Moreover, the Great London Fire completely cut off the plague problem in London since 1665. This fire burned a huge number of mice, and the mice in the cellars had no hiding place at all. After the reconstruction of London, the original wooden houses were replaced by stone houses, and personal hygiene was improved, so that the plague no longer broke out. Samuel Pepys, a famous diarist, faithfully recorded the succession of the plague and the fire in his diary. "Seeing the tragedy of the plague, I was so uneasy that I had to chew tobacco in my mouth to avoid the invasion of germs." "I got out of bed, put on my pajamas, went to the window to look, thinking that the fire was behind the farthest Mackey, and then went to bed with my head covered."

The urgent demands for reconstruction of London after the fire powered the domestic demand, and the scientist-born Tork became a master of architecture, and after the fire in London he served as a meter and City inspector in London. On October 1, 1666, Sir Christopher Wren, the architect, proposed a post-catastrophe restoration plan for the entire city, including the St Paul's Cathedral, which began in 1675 until 1710 and cost £75,000 in total. The construction of which he participated included the Royal Palace of Kensington, Hampton Palace, the Great Fire Memorial Pillar, the Royal Exchange, and the Greenwich Observatory. These projects made the British economy start to rise so rapidly, Fawcett said, without the Great Fire, London and the entire British economy would not have been so fast.

The London Fire Monument

Loss Results

Economy

The fire also caused about £ 10 million in economic damage. At that time, the annual income of the city of London was 12,000 pounds, and theoretically, it would take 800 years to make up for the disaster losses.

After the fire, more than ten thousand people were homeless.Many refugees temporarily lived in the Mulfield shelters or built a cottage next to their burned houses.H, the reconstruction after the disaster was very rapid, and by 1672, almost all citizens moved to new homes.

Number of victims

Although the fire spread to 80% of London, burning 13,200 houses, 87 churches and 47 offices, it is recorded that only five people died in the fire.

The dead include: the maid of the baker who caused the fire; the watchmaker Paul Loir on Shore Street; an elderly man who saved a carpet from St. Paul's church but was struck by smoke; and two others who tried to save grains and possessions but were unfortunately trapped in the basement.

The exact number of people who died in the fire may never be known.John Evelyn mentioned that ¡°there is a bad smell from some kind of biological body,¡± and modern forensic medicine has shown that high heat can cause the body to evaporate, so it is impossible to register them in the case.

Cause of occurrence

The fire began at the King¡¯s Breadhouse on Putinin Street, where Thomas Ferrero was the owner of the breadhouse. At the time, Ferrero denied his allegations of firing himself, but a French watchmaker named Robert Hubert was intrigued to indicate that it was Ferrero¡¯s firing. Therefore, despite evidence that Ferrero did not firing, people hang him.

It wasn't until 1986 that the events had their final outcome. The Federation of Bakers officially claimed responsibility for the fire and apologized to the public.