September 2nd

On this day – 2. September – 1666 - Started the great fire of London 

The fire started on the 2. of September 1966 and lasted for 3 days, until the 5th of September. The fire started in a bakery and a French watchmaker was later hanged for starting the fire (although it was later proved that he had not been in the city when the fire started). The fire ruined the medieval parts of London and around 13.000 houses were burned to the ground in the few devastating days the fire lasted.  Around 70.000 people (out of the 80.000 who lived in central London) were affected by the fire, but only a few people were registered as dead due to the fire. However, no one really knows how many people died from the fires, since the lower classes were not registered properly.