Chapter 27 Burning the City of London

In the "Bible" records, 666 is a very unlucky beast number.When history was about to advance to 1666, Christians in Europe began to wait for the disaster to come with fear. In 1665, a terrible plague occurred in London, killing many people, and the disaster further exacerbated people's panic. In 1666, another fire broke out in London, and many people believed that Judgment Day had come.Many people think that the fire in 1666 was the year of apocalypse opened by God, it was a trial beyond the ages, and it was God punishing the sinful earth with wrath. At about 1 o'clock in the morning on September 2, 1666, a fire broke out in a bakery in Dumpudine Lane.A gust of wind quickly blew the flames through several narrow streets full of wooden houses, and then into warehouses on the north bank of the Thames.Not long after, the entire city of London was surrounded by fire.The fire burned for 4 days, including 87 churches, 44 companies, and 13,000 private houses. About one-sixth of the buildings in London, Europe's largest city, were burned.

The year before the fire, in 1665, the bubonic plague broke out in Europe, killing more than 60,000 people in the London area alone. In 3 months, the population of London fell by 1/10.The plague caused the royal family to flee to die, and the houses of the sick were marked with red marks.Many people began to emigrate to the countryside to escape the troubles of big cities.Because there is no control, domestic garbage began to pile up everywhere.This has also become the biggest driving force for the fire to spread. All this is just a prelude, and the real disaster began in the terrible year of 1666.

King Charles had previously written to the Mayor of London urging him to implement strict blackouts.When the fire broke out, the mayor of London was notified of the fire in the early hours of the morning, but he didn't care. It was Sunday and he was not in the mood to work.By the afternoon, the fire had reached the banks of the Thames and was out of control.By Wednesday, 1,300 houses had been burned across London, churches in 87 parishes had been burned, and 300 hectares of land had been reduced to scorched earth.St. Paul's Cathedral was burned, and even the ancient tombs were not spared, revealing what appeared to be mummified bodies.

However, only 5 people are recorded to have died in this fire.An investigation later found that the fire started when a baker forgot to turn off the oven on which the bread was being baked.The actual number of dead may never be known, and John Evelyn has mentioned "there was a foul smell coming from the remains of some kind of creature".Modern forensic science even believes that the high temperature caused many corpses to evaporate out of thin air. But this disaster, now it seems that it is not God's punishment, on the contrary, the culprit is man-made disaster. The mysterious prophecies in the Bible have only now come to an end.