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EUROPE 1530 . Aalborg, almost entirely destroyed . 1541 . Aarhuus, almost entirely destroyed, and again in 1556 . 1624 . Opslo, nearly destroyed . Christiania was built on the site . 1702 . Bergen, greater part of the town destroyed . 1728 . Copenhagen, nearly destroyed . 165o heusesburned, 77 streets, 1794 .

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palace with contents burned . 1795 . 5o streets, 1563 houses burned . 1751 . Stockholm, moo houses destroyed . 1759 . 250 houses burned . Loss, 2,000,000 crowns . 1775 . Abo, 200 houses and 15 mills burned . 1827 . ,, 780 houses burned, with the university .

1790 . Carlsc ona, 1087 houses, churches, warehouses, &c., destroyed . 1802 .

Gothenburg, 178 houses burned . 1858 . Christiania . Loss estimated at £250,000 . 1865 . Carlstadt (Sweden), everything burned except the bishop's residence, hospital and jail. to lives lost . RUSSIA 1736 . St Petersburg, 2000 houses burned . 1862 .

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great fire . Loss, £t,000,000 . 1752 . Moscow, 18,000 houses burned . 1812 . „ The Russians fired the city on September 14 to drive out the army of Napoleon . The fire continued five days . Nine-tenths of the city was destroyed . Number of houses burned, 30,800 . Loss, £30,000,000 . 1753 . Archangel, 900 houses burned .

1793 . 3000 buildings and the

cathedral burned . 1786 . Tobolsk, nearly destroyed . 1788 . Mitau, nearly destroyed . 1812 . Riga, partly destroyed . 1834 . Tula, destructive fire . 1848 . Orel, large part of the town destroyed .

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Cracow, large part of the town burned . 1864 . Novgorod, large amount of property destroyed . TURKEY The following fires have occurred at Constantinople: 1729 . A great fire destroyed 12,000 houses and 7000 people . 1745 . A fire lasted five days . 1750 . In January, Io,o00 houses burned; in April, property destroyed estimated from £I,000,000 to £3,000,000 . Later in the year Io,0o0 houses were destroyed . 1751 .

4000 houses were burned . 1756 . 15,000 houses and too people destroyed . During the years 1761, 1765 and 1767 great havoc was made by fire . 1769 .

July 17 . A fire raged for twelve hours, extending nearly I m. in length . Many of the palaces, some small mosques and nearly 65o houses were destroyed . A fire lasting 15 hours consumed 2500 houses and shops . 2000 houses were burned . August 12 . A fire burned three days: to,000 houses, 50 mosques and too corn mills destroyed; too lives lost .

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February, 60o houses burned; in June, 7000 more . August 5 . A fire burned' for 26 hours and destroyed to,000 houses, most of which had been rebuilt since the fires of 1782 . In the same year, March 13, a fire in the suburb of Pera destroyed two-thirds of that quarter . Loss estimated at 2,000,000 florins . 179 . Between March and July 32,000 houses are said to have been burned, and as many In 1795 . 1799 . In the suburb of Pera 13,000 houses were burned and many magnificent buildings . 1816 . August 16 . 12,000 houses and 3000 shops in the finest quarter were destroyed .

1818 . August 13 . A fire destroyed several thousand houses . 1826 . A fire destroyed 6000 houses . 1848 . 500 houses and 2000 shops destroyed . Loss estimated at £3,000,000 . 1865 . A great fire destroyed 2800 houses, public buildings, &c . Over 22,000 people were

left homeless . 1870 .

June 5 . The suburb of Pera, occupied by the

foreign population and native Christians, was swept by a fire which destroyed over 7000 buildings, many of them among the best in the city, including the residence of the foreign legations . Loss estimated at nearly £5,000,000 . 1797 . Scutari, the town of 3000 houses totally destroyed . 1763 . Smyrna, 2600 houses consumed . Loss, £200,000 . 1772 . „ 3000 dwellings burned . 3000 to 4000 shops, &c. consumed . Loss, £4,000,000 .

1796 . 4000 shops, mosques, magazines, &c., burned . 12,000 houses were burned .

INDIA 1631 . Rajmahal . Palace and great part of the town burned . 1799 . Manilla, vast storehouses were burned . 1833 . „ 10,000 huts were burned, March 26 . 30,000 people rendered homeless, and 50 lives lost . 1803 .

Madras, more than moo houses burned . 1803 . Bombay . Loss by fire of £600,000 .