The Monument to the Great Fire of London
1671–1677 · Work
Wren and Hooke's 202-foot Doric column rises near the fire's starting point in Pudding Lane — and doubles as Hooke's scientific instrument, with a laboratory beneath and a shaft for experiments.
On these timelines: The Plague and Fire of London, England, Master, Arts and Thoughts, United Kingdom (combined)
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- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Great Fire of London (1666)
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- St Paul's burns (1666)
- Plague deaths peak at seven thousand a week (1665)
- Great Plague: London shuts up its houses (1665)
- Gunpowder halts the fire (1666)
- Wren proposes a new London (1666)
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- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)