Charles II2 September 1666
1st day of the Great Fire of London, started in a bakers shop in Pudding Lane
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1st day of the Great Fire of London, started in a bakers shop in Pudding Lane
Checks the flames by ordering sailors to blow up houses in the path of the fire
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