List of building or structure fires

This is a list of building or structure fires where a building or structure has caught fire. For major urban conflagrations, see List of town and city fires.

Antiquity through Middle Ages

16th century

  • 1561  Fire of Valladolid (21 September) destroys a tenth of the city, including 440 houses.
  • 1568  The Great Fire of Ferrol which reduced to rubble the old medieval town.
  • 1577  Fire in the Doge's Palace, Venice, destroyed major works by Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto.

17th century

  • 1608  First settlement in Jamestown burnt.
  • 1613  Globe Theatre in London. During the performance, cannon misfire caught the thatched roof on fire and the Theatre burned down.[2]
  • 1652  Town hall of Amsterdam burnt down. Treasures and important historical charters were destroyed.
  • 1671  Much of the monastery of the Escorial outside Madrid burned in a fire lasting 15 days, destroying large numbers of artworks, books and manuscripts.
  • 1697  The medieval "Tre Kronor" Royal Castle in Stockholm burned down and was eventually replaced by the present palace.
  • 1698  The Tudor and Stuart Palace of Whitehall, London burned, except for Inigo Jones's Banqueting House. The ruins were demolished.

18th century

19th century

On the right, a white stone bridge arches over a wide river. On the far side and to the left, a gabled building is outlined in front of huge flames rising up to the night sky; they are reflected in the water and illuminate part of the bridge and a building with two towers in the background. There are several boats full of people in the river, and large crowds are assembled on the near bank and on the bridge.
J. M. W. Turner watched the Palace of Westminster fire in 1834 and painted several canvases depicting it, including The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)

20th century

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

Firemen struggle to extinguish the Reichstag fire on 27 February 1933

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

The Executive Council Building in flames during the Siege of Sarajevo in May 1992.

21st century

2000s

Fire at Alma College in May 2008. Only a brick shell remained and was subsequently demolished.

2010s

  • 2018  On August 28, A 300 year old building in Belfast (Bank Buildings) caught fire and is at risk of collapse.[115]

See also

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