On the shores north and south, the fishers and mooncursers -- smugglers -- lived along the churning Great South Bay and the narrow barrier of sand, Fire Island.

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

The White Stockings were close contenders all season, despite the fact that the Great Chicago Fire had destroyed the team's home field and most of their equipment.

The following are representative examples of the style: Paulaner Salvator, Ayinger Celebrator, Weihenstephaner Korbinian, Andechser Doppelbock Dunkel, Spaten Optimator, Tucher Bajuvator, Weltenburger Kloster Asam-Bock, Capital Autumnal Fire, EKU 28, Eggenberg Urbock 23º, Bell's Consecrator, Moretti La Rossa, Samuel Adams Double Bock, Troegs Troegenator Double Bock, Wasatch Brewery Devastator, Great Lakes Doppelrock.

He disappeared after 1888, but circumstantial evidence suggests that he died in the Great Hinckley Fire in 1894, although this remains impossible to substantiate.

He is thought to have died in the Great Hinckley Fire of September 1, 1894.

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.

Artist's rendering of the Great Chicago Fire | Great Chicago Fire of 1871

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.

The destruction caused by the Great Chicago Fire led to the largest building boom in the history of the nation.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

After the Great Chicago Fire, Lyell was one of the first to donate books to help found the Chicago Public Library.

The Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) left standing only Defoe's and two other homes in his neighbourhood.

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.

) With Gypsy Fever, Parton toured as a headline act in 1977, 1978 and 1979, to promote her albums, New Harvest-First Gathering, Here You Come Again, Heartbreaker, and Great Balls of Fire.

* 1940 – World War II: In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.

Claudius died around the year AD 54, and his successor, Emperor Nero, allowed the Jews back into Rome, but then, after the Great Fire of Rome of 64, persecuted the Christians.

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.

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

Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in " the end of the world " ruled by carnal human beings ; the doctrine of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism.

The Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace was founded in 1908 to govern international competitions, and the first European championships were won by Great Britain in 1910.

* 1910 – The worst avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

* 7. 7 Pm — 52, 000 AU — Aphelion distance of the Great Daylight Comet of 1910

Halley's 1910 apparition is distinct from the Great Daylight Comet of 1910, which surpassed Halley in brilliance and was actually visible in broad daylight for a short period, approximately four months before Halley made its appearance.

Avro was founded on 1 January 1910 by Alliott Verdon Roe on at the Brownfield Mill on Great Ancoats Street in Manchester.

Roe and Company was established at Brownsfield Mill, Great Ancoats Street, Manchester, by Alliott Verdon Roe and his brother Humphrey Verdon Roe on 1 January 1910.

Remembering the misery and destruction caused by the 1910 Great Flood of Paris, the French government built a series of reservoirs called Les Grands Lacs de Seine ( or Great Lakes ) which helps remove pressure from the Seine during floods, especially the regular winter flooding.

The 1910 Great Flood of Paris was the worst the city had seen since 1658 when the water reached only a few centimetres higher.

Tansley's For Kett and Countryside ( 1910 ), Jack Lindsay's The Great Oak ( 1949 ), Sylvia Haymon's children's story The Loyal Traitor ( 1965 ), and Margaret Callow's A Rebellious Oak ( 2012 ); plays, including George Colman Green's Kett the tanner ( 1909 ); and poetry, including Keith Chandler's collection Kett's Rebellion and Other Poems ( 1982 ).

Peary was the author of several books, the most famous being Northward over the Great Ice ( 1898 ) and The North Pole ( 1910 ).

Great Britain passed a law in 1908 prohibiting its use in matches after 31 December 1910.

This Prokudin-Gorsky photo from 1910 shows the tallest building in the pre-revolutionary Urals, the Great Zlatoust Church | Great Zlatoust bell tower

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker ( October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934 ) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow ( March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934 ) were well-known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.

Following rapid growth during the Great Migration of African-Americans from the south between 1910 and 1920, it became home to numerous African-American owned businesses and cultural institutions and offered an alternative to the race restrictions that were prevalent in the rest of the city.

* Norman Angell The Great Illusion ( London: Heinemann, 1910 )

Most of the area here and in neighbouring Seven Kings was only built up between 1898 and 1910 by the developer A. C. Corbett who used new stations on the Great Eastern Railway to promote the new suburbs.

Wallace, Idaho, followingthe Great Fire of 1910

Much of the county was burned in the Great Fire of 1910, including part of the town of Wallace.

The decreases in population from 1910 – 1920, and from 1940 – 1960, were chiefly caused by different phases of the Great Migration, as African Americans left segregation and oppression of the South to seek better opportunities in the North, during the first phase, and in the West, especially California's defense industry, in the second phase.

Sir Norman Angell in his work The Great Illusion ( 1910 ) claimed that the world was united by trade, finance, industry and communications and that therefore nationalism was an anachronism and that war would not profit anyone involved but would only result in destruction.

Farmers and Traders Savings Bank ( founded 1910 ) is located in Douds, and is one of the few banks to survive the Great Depression.

The town was founded on February 11, 1910 and developed as a grain storage and shipping center along the Great Northern Railway.