* Frazer, Sir James George, Myths of the Origin of Fire, London: Macmillan, 1930.

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

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

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.

On 2 and 3 September, the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the centre of London.

However, it is now thought that the Plague had subsided before the Great Fire of London.

Also, most plague cases were found in the suburbs of the city and not in the centre of London that was affected by the Fire.

In 1665, London was swept by a visitation of the plague, and then, in 1666, the capital was swept by the Great Fire, which raged for 5 days, destroying approximately 15, 000 buildings.

Insurance as we know it today can be traced to the Great Fire of London, which in 1666 devoured more than 13, 000 houses.

Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight ( see under ' Alternative views ' below ), with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

* 1666 – The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days, destroying 10, 000 buildings including St Paul's Cathedral.

* 1666 – In London, England, the most destructive damage from the Great Fire occurs.

It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.

In particular it is an invaluable source for the study of the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 – 7, of the Great Plague of 1665, and of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

As he had done during the Fire and the Plague, Pepys again removed his wife and his gold from London.

* 1666 – The Royal Exchange burns down in the Great Fire of London

* 1666 – Great Fire of London ends: 10, 000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.

It is recorded in the diaries of Samuel Pepys that whilst surveying the damage to London caused by the Great Fire in the company of the Royal Family they were heard to discuss Mother Shipton's prophecy of the event.

* The London Fire Brigade was established in 1865.

* June 22 – Tooley Street fire starts and takes the life of James Braidwood first director of the London Fire Brigade.

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

Alexander was then in February 1928 promoted to colonel ( backdated to 14 May 1926 ) and was the next month appointed Officer Commanding the Irish Guards Regimental District and 140th ( 4th London ) Infantry Brigade in the Territorial Army a post he held until January 1930, when he again returned to study, attending the Imperial Defence College for one year.

The Luxembourg Government in exile in London made agreements for a group of seventy Luxembourg volunteers to be assigned to in 1944 the ' Artillery Group ' of the 1st Belgian Infantry Brigade ( also known as the Piron Brigade ).

Baden-Powell wrote the principles of Scouting in Scouting for Boys ( London, 1908 ), based on his earlier military books, with influence and support of Frederick Russell Burnham ( Chief of Scouts in British Africa ), Ernest Thompson Seton of the Woodcraft Indians, William Alexander Smith of the Boys ' Brigade, and his publisher Pearson.

In the same year, to test his ideas, he gathered 21 boys of mixed social backgrounds ( from boy's schools in the London area and a section of boys from the Poole, Parkstone, Hamworthy, Bournemouth, and Winton Boys ' Brigade units ) and held a week-long camp in August on Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour, Dorset, England.

The other members of the group from North East London, the " Stoke Newington Eight " were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history ( it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972 ).

Howard Brenton's 1973 play Magnificence, about a group of far-left revolutionaries in a London squat, is partly inspired by the Angry Brigade.

* The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority ( LFEPA ) – Administers the London Fire Brigade and co-ordinates emergency planning.

A glittering crowd attended the first night in London, including Captain ( later Captain Sir ) Eyre Massey Shaw, head of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, whom the Fairy Queen apostrophizes in the second act (" Oh, Captain Shaw / Type of true love kept under / Could thy brigade with cold cascade / Quench my great love, I wonder ?").

In June 1887 the St John Ambulance Brigade was established to provide first aid and ambulance services at public events in London.

Specialist and local collections are represented at the London Fire Brigade Museum, the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret, The Clink, the Cuming Museum and the London Bridge Experience and London Tombs under London Bridge.

Statutory emergency fire service is provided by the London Fire Brigade.

Statutory emergency fire service is provided by the London Fire Brigade.

Statutory emergency fire service is provided by the London Fire Brigade.

Most notably, Wembley National Stadium is within the area-on match days the safety of over 90, 000 people is the responsibility of the London Fire Brigade.

The London Borough of Bexley has three fire stations controlled by the London Fire Brigade within its boundary ; those at Erith, Sidcup and Bexley.

The London Fire Brigade mobilised 40 fire engines, 12 turntable ladders and over 200 firefighters to the incident but were unable to save the depot ; two customs officials were killed in the blaze.

The British ships rolled at anchor, sent out picket boats and waited for orders from London.

The skull was sent to the Natural History Museum in London for verification.

However, due to a misunderstanding between Oliver Cromwell ( guest-star Warren Clarke ) and Baldrick, the king is arrested and sent to the Tower of London.

It was one of two antiquities of Hamilton's collection drawn for him by Francesco Progenie, a pupil of Pietro Fabris, who also contributed a number of drawings of Mount Vesuvius sent by Hamilton to the Royal Society in London.

The plates were packed in cotton wool and returned to Gardner in London, who sent an " ecstatic " telegram to Conan Doyle, by then in Melbourne.

Finding Kidd politically useless, the Tory leaders sent him to stand trial before the High Court of Admiralty in London for the charges of piracy on high seas and the murder of William Moore.

Also, Lancashire businessmen produced grey cloth with linen warp and cotton weft, known as fustian, which they sent to London to be finished.

Newson wanted to give his children the best education possible so when Elizabeth was 13 and her sister 15, they were sent to a private school, the Boarding School for Ladies in Blackheath, London, which was run by the step aunts of the poet, Robert Browning.

When they finished in 1851, they were sent on a short tour abroad, ending with a memorable visit to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, London.

A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924 became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile.

In 1610 Bacon and his associates received a charter from the king to form the Tresurer and the Companye of Adventurers and planter of the Cittye of London and Bristoll for the Collonye or plantacon in Newfoundland and sent John Guy to found a colony there.

In August 1929, he sent a copy of The Spike to New Adelphi magazine in London.

The plague allegedly arrived with a merchant carrying a parcel of cloth sent from London, although this is a disputed point.

Another way was used to keep this clandestine correspondence flowing: letters were sent in merchant ships between London and Amsterdam or Rotterdam, with outward bound letters often put on board below Gravesend, as this would be after the final customs clearance.

Mathers sent an immediate reply, declining to provide proof, refusing to acknowledge the London temple, and dismissing Farr as his representative on March 23.

However, Western Medicine was introduced to China in the 19th Century, mainly by medical missionaries sent from various Christian mission organizations, such as the London Missionary Society ( Britain ), the Methodist Church ( Britain ) and the Presbyterian Church ( USA ).

Benjamin Hobson ( 1816-1873 ), a medical missionary sent by the London Missionary Society in 1839, set up a highly successful Wai Ai Clinic ( 惠愛醫館 ) in Guangzhou, China.

There were also two ships from Dunkirk sent by John Clarke, as well as a ship each from London and Hull.

In 1647, Locke was sent to the prestigious Westminster School in London under the sponsorship of Alexander Popham, a member of Parliament and his father's former commander.

It was under these conditions that Pope Gregory XI, who in January, 1377, had gone from Avignon to Rome, sent on 22 May five copies of his bull against Wycliffe, dispatching one to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the others to the Bishop of London, King Edward III, the Chancellor, and the university ; among the enclosures were 18 theses of his, which were denounced as erroneous and dangerous to Church and State.

So to discredit his rival, he appointed Ribbentrop head of the delegation sent to London to negotiate it.

It later emerged that the agent – known as Schmidt – had also worked as an informant for the Rote Kapelle organisation, which sent information to both London and Moscow.

Burgess was sent back to England, where he met Maclean in his London club.

The distance between the royal trebuchets and the walls severely reduced their effectiveness and heavier trebuchets had to be sent for from London.

In 1864, the first telegraphic message was sent from India to England, when a direct telegraph connection was laid between Karachi and London.