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Let’s journey back over 300 years to the city of London in the mid-17th century. In this time period in history, London was still very much a medieval city, filled with homes and structures built with thatch and wooden materials. On a fateful day in 1666, a combination of this city structure, hot weather, and strong winds led to one of the most destructive fires in history, a fire that wrecked over three-quarters of the entire city. Let’s discover this terrible event, the Great Fire of London in 1666.