It's quite amazing but the recorded deaths are less than 10. Some reports have put the figure as eight - very precise for than era.
It can be argued that far more died because of inefficiency in recording, but the figure is still going to be low.
Far less than if the same catastrophe happened today.
There are NO recorded deaths due to the Great Fire of London. However, that doesn't mean that nobody died, just that the deaths weren't recorded.
I'm not sure, did 60 survive?
London survived The Great Fire and The Great Plague in those years. Although the fire was ruinous to the London because it burned most of the old City where were trade warehouses, merchant houses, Royal Exchange and old St. Paul Cathedral, only a dozen people died in this fire. However The Great Plague killed around 65,000 people in a few months and was spread from Amsterdam. London in that year had around 600,000 people living in, so app. 10 % of population died from plague. Court and most of the rich and middle - class people saved themselves by fleeing in the countryside.
Though a majorly destructive event, an estimated six people only died from the Great Fire of 1666. While the fire consumed the poorer districts, it did not come near Charles II's palace at all, and indeed the monarch lived on for another 19 years or so.
A great percentage of them died.
That lots of people died in the fire.
According to official records, nobody died in the fire, although that seems hard to believe.
Amazingly, hardly anyone died.
1665 was the date of the Bubonic Plague when thousands died. 1666 was the date of the Great Fire of London which eradicated the plague and hardly anyone died in the fire.
The fire started in Pudding lane at the house of Thomjas Farynbor who was the King's baker. In the case of the London fire, it stopped when it reached the stone walls surrounding the city and with nothing left to burn it died out. The Great Plague of London, which occurred in 1665 - 1666, was another outbreak of the bubonic plague that took the lives of about 20% of the population of London. Historians now link the London fire as a remedy for the plague. It worked very effective since the few of the rats that survived had the hair burned and the fleas dead.
in 1666 in the bakery at pudding lane because Thomas Farronor did not put his fire out it spread for 4 days and 5 people died and the bakers maid was the first person to die because she was too scared to climb on the roof and jump.
London survived The Great Fire and The Great Plague in those years. Although the fire was ruinous to the London because it burned most of the old City where were trade warehouses, merchant houses, Royal Exchange and old St. Paul Cathedral, only a dozen people died in this fire. However The Great Plague killed around 65,000 people in a few months and was spread from Amsterdam. London in that year had around 600,000 people living in, so app. 10 % of population died from plague. Court and most of the rich and middle - class people saved themselves by fleeing in the countryside.
Around half of London was destroyed, but only 6 people died.
Though a majorly destructive event, an estimated six people only died from the Great Fire of 1666. While the fire consumed the poorer districts, it did not come near Charles II's palace at all, and indeed the monarch lived on for another 19 years or so.
It was estimated that 4,000 people died and 100,000 were made ill
A great percentage of them died.
That lots of people died in the fire.
Shakespeare died in 1616, nearly 400 years ago. Many buildings of that time would have disintegrated due to age. Also, many buildings would have been destroyed during the Great Fire of London in 1666.
According to official records, nobody died in the fire, although that seems hard to believe.