Fire Rains on London: City Reborn in Ash
Flames erupted in a Pudding Lane bakery and raged across London for three days, consuming over 10,000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral and leaving 70,000 residents homeless. The devastation forced a complete redesign of the city's infrastructure, replacing medieval timber construction with stone and brick under strict new building codes.
September 2, 1666
360 years ago
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