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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 401 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Carlisle, destroyed . 1507 . Norwich, nearly destroyed; 718 houses burned . 1544 .
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Leith, burned . 1598 .
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Tiverton, 400 houses and a large number of horses burned; 33 persons killed . Loss, £150,000 . 1612 . „ 600 houses burned . Loss over £200,000 .

1731 . ,, 300 houses burned . 1700 .

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Edinburgh, " the
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Great Fire.” 1612 . Cork, greater
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part burned, and again in 1622 . 1613 . Dorchester, nearly destroyed . Loss, £200,000 . 1614 . Stratford-on-
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Avon, burned . 1644 . Beaminster, burned .

Again in 1684 and 1781 . 1675 .

Northampton, almost totally destroyed . 1683 .
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Newmarket, large part of the
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town burned . 1694 . Warwick, more than
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half burned; rebuilt by
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national
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con- tribution . 1707 .
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Lisburn, burned . 1727 .
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Gravesend, destroyed . 1738 .

Wellingborough, 800 houses burned . 1743 .
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Crediton, 450 houses destroyed . 176o . Portsmouth, dockyard burned . Loss, £400,000 . 1770 . ,, „ Loss, £ioo,000 . 1802 . Liverpool, destructive fire . Loss, £I,000,000 . 1827 .

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Sheerness, 50 houses and much
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property destroyed . 1854 .
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Gateshead, 50 persons killed . Loss, £1,000,000 . 1875 .
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Glasgow . Great fire . Loss, £300,000 . FRANCE 59 . Lyons, burned to ashes .
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Nero offers to rebuild it . 1118 .

Nantes, greater part of the city destroyed . 1137 .
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Dijon, burned . 1524 .
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Troyes, nearly destroyed . 1720 .
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Rennes, on fire from December 22 to 29 . 850 houses burned . 1784 .
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Brest . Fire and
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explosion in dockyard . Loss, £I,000,000 .

1862 .

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Marseilles, destructive fire . 1871 . Paris . Communist devastations . Property destroyed, £32,000,000 .

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