Edo was repeatedly devastated by fires, with the Great Fire of Meireki in 1657 ( in which an estimated 100, 000 people died ) the most disastrous.

The full history of Lyon & Healy is complicated by the destruction of its building and loss of company records during four fires including the Great Chicago Fire ( 1871 ).

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

* 1871 – Four major fires break out on the shores of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Peshtigo, Wisconsin, Holland, Michigan, and Manistee, Michigan including the Great Chicago Fire, and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire.

** WWII: " Second Great Fire of London " – Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1, 500 fires.

On that hot, dry and windy autumn day, three other major fires occurred along the shores of Lake Michigan at the same time as the Great Chicago Fire.

Great fires in 1361 and 1438 destroyed the city.

Several fires throughout the 1920s and the Great Depression, however, halted the town's rapid growth.

The Great Depression and two devastating fires in 1930 and 1948 further damaged the local economy.

Great fires were lit at night.

The Black Saturday bushfires, the Great Peshtigo Fire and the Ash Wednesday fires are examples of firestorms, as is that following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.

Firestorms are thought to have been part of the mechanism of large urban fires such as the Great Fire of Rome, the Great Fire of London, the 1871 Great Chicago Fire, and the fires resulting from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.

Toompea had been affected by earlier fires in 1288, 1433, 1553 and 1581, but the fire of 1684 was much larger in scale, destroying most of the buildings in the Great Castle, including the cathedral.

Edo suffered badly from devastating fires and the 1657 Great Fire of Meireki was a turning point in urban design.

" These fires created The Great Conflagration of Richmond, which left a third of the city destroyed, including all of the business district.

After the destruction of this first building in the fires caused by the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Japanese Government Railways constructed the current station buildings.

Forest fires in northern Canada, southeast of Great Slave Lake

As time went on, Viking raids became more sophisticated, with coordinated strikes involving multiple forces and large armies, as the " Great Heathen Army " that ravaged Anglo-Saxon England in the 9th century.

Leitrim was first hit by the recession caused by the mechanisation of linen weaving in the 1830s and its 155, 000 residents ( as of the 1841 census ) were ravaged by the Great Famine and the population dropped to 112, 000 by 1851.

The Balkans were ravaged by the Ostrogoths, after a disagreement between the Emperor and the young chief Theodoric the Great that had been raised at Leo's court in Constantinople, where he was steeped in Roman government and military tactics.

During the later part of Bahram V's reign, Persia was invaded from the northeast by Hephthalite hordes who ravaged northern Iran under the command of their Great Khan.

The next year, in the aftermath of the Great Fire of London which ravaged the city in September 1666, parliament set up a court to settle disputes between landlords and tenants of burned buildings ( Fire of London Disputes Act 1666 ), and passed a series of acts setting down regulations for rebuilding of the city ( Rebuilding of London Act 1666 ).

Soon after, the Magyars ravaged Great Moravia and not a church was left standing in Pannonia.

In the first half of 1927, the Great Mississippi Flood ravaged the state of Mississippi and surrounding areas.

Gondor prepared to retaliate, but these preparations were soon halted as Gondor was soon after ravaged by the Great Plague.

The building was entirely destroyed in the Great Fire of 1901, which ravaged downtown Jacksonville.

Zasechnaya cherta (, loosely translated as Great Abatis Line or Great Abatis Border ) is a chain of fortification lines, created by Grand Duchy of Moscow and later the Tsardom of Russia to protect it from the raids of the Crimean Tatars who, rapidly moving along the Muravsky Trail, ravaged the southern provinces of the country during a series of the Russo-Crimean Wars.

In the eponymous series, Kamandi is a teenage boy on a post-apocalyptic Earth ( which the textual narrative describes as " Earth A. D. ( After Disaster )") that has been ravaged by a mysterious calamity called the Great Disaster.

During the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Iesi was ravaged by the troops of Odoacer ( 476 AD ) and again in 493 by the Ostrogoths of Theodoric the Great.

The mysterious high-born Severinus is first recorded as travelling along the Danube in Noricum and Bavaria, preaching Christianity, procuring supplies for the starving, redeeming captives and establishing monasteries at Passau and Favianae, and hospices in the chaotic territories that were ravaged by the Great Migrations, sleeping on sackcloth and fasting severely.

Danish troops had ravaged the duke's lands during the Great Northern War and conquered its northern portions, including the ancestral seat of the dynasty of Holstein-Gottorp, Gottorp castle.

The effects of the Great Depression ravaged America and Shapp was unable to find work in the engineering field.

Today, Horton is most remembered for his 1926 account " The Blight of Asia " relating, among a variety of topics, the Great Fire of Smyrna that ravaged the city of Smyrna starting on 13 September 1922, two days after the Consul general's departure from his post there on 11 September, and that lasted for 4 days.

As the Great Depression ravaged the world ’ s economies, a billion dollars in US citizen-owned foreign bonds had fallen into default.

During the Great Northern War, the Swedish Army ravaged Palanga, destroyed the harbour at Šventoji, and blocked up the entrance with rocks in 1701.

The population of Gunthorpe grew to several hundred before being devastated by the plague which ravaged Great Britain and much of Europe from 1347 to 1351.

During the Great Northern War, Vidzeme was totally ravaged by Peter the Great's forces.

The area was ravaged by the Great Fire of 1900, which had started across the river in Hull ( now Gatineau, QC ), but jumped over by way of the great stacks of piled lumber on the islands.

The series is set many years into the future, where the world has been ravaged by a great nuclear holocaust known as the Great White.

* 1917 – A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32 % of the city leaving 70, 000 individuals homeless.

According to an early interview, with the city snowed under during the Great Blizzard of 1978 in Chicago, the two began preliminary work on the Computerized Bulletin Board System, or CBBS.

The city was later renamed Nova Roma by Constantine the Great, but popularly called Constantinople and briefly became the imperial residence of the classical Roman Empire.

In the 4th century BC, Alexander the Great commissioned Dinocrates of Rhodes to lay out his new city of Alexandria, the grandest example of idealized urban planning of the ancient Mediterranean world, where the city's regularity was facilitated by its level site near a mouth of the Nile.

By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.

The palace of Blachernae in the north-west of the city became the main Imperial residence, with the old Great Palace on the shores of the Bosporus going into decline.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

The city is serviced by rail via the Great Lakes Central Railroad.

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed.

In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire broke out, destroying an area of about 4 miles long and 1 mile wide, a large section of the city at the time.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

Marble columns with antique capitals in the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan also known as the Mosque of Uqba, city of Kairouan, Tunisia

The following year, having obtained tribute from the East Anglian King Edmund, the Great Army moved north, seizing York, chief city of the Northumbrians.

Since the beginning of Norman rule in the 12th century, the city has functioned as the capital in varying geopolitical entities: Lordship of Ireland ( 1171 – 1541 ), Kingdom of Ireland ( 1541 – 1800 ), island as part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ( 1801 – 1922 ), and the Irish Republic ( 1919 – 1922 ).

At the time of Domitian's accession the city was still suffering from the damage caused by the Great Fire of 64, the civil war of 69 and the fire in 79.

During the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the city state was annexed by King Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia.

The Sumida River ( then called the Great River, 大川 ), ran along the eastern edge of the city.

As a result of the devastating Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and recent population boom, new development was plentiful in the city.

View of the prayer hall of the Mosque of Uqba | Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) considered as the oldest place of worship in the Western Islamic World, it is located in the city of Kairouan in Tunisia.

Brown's major achievement after Work was " The Manchester Murals ", a cycle of twelve paintings in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall depicting the history of the city.

" In 1901 the Great Western sugar processing plant was built in the neighboring city of Loveland.

Although the city was affected by the Great Depression and simultaneous drought, it nevertheless experienced slow and steady growth throughout the early part of the twentieth century.

Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.

From the eighteenth century, Spanish sources reported that immediately after the takeover of the city, Sir George Rooke, the British admiral, on his own initiative caused the British flag to be hoisted, and took possession of the Rock in name of Anne, Queen of Great Britain, whose government ratified the occupation.