The Fire of London (In Our Time)
1666 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Great Fire of London which destroyed up to a third of the city in 1666. Samuel Pepys described the scene in his diary:“all over the Thames, with one's face in the wind, you were almost burned with a shower of firedrops…and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1666
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Kingdom of Prussia proclaimed (1701)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)