The Plague and Fire of London
Explore The Plague and Fire of London on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Great Fire of London (1666)
- The fire starts in Pudding Lane (1666)
- 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)
- Plague village of Eyam (1665)
- Wren proposes a new London (1666)
- Pepys' diary (1660)
- Hubert hanged on a false confession (1666)
- Christopher Wren's St Paul's Cathedral (1675)
- Reign of Charles II (1660)