19th century 2 List of fires

j. m. w. turner watched palace of westminster fire in 1834 , painted several canvases depicting it, including burning of houses of lords , commons (1835)



1834 – palace of westminster, home parliament of united kingdom
1836 – first u.s. patent office fire in blodget s hotel
1837 – winter palace, st. petersburg, russia destroyed except hermitage
1841 – mayagüez, puerto rico january 30
1842 – hamburg great fire
1844 – separate fires @ st. michael s & st. augustine s roman catholic churches during philadelphia nativist riot, philadelphia, pennsylvania
1845 – theatre fire in canton, china killed 1670
1863 – church of company fire in santiago, chile; killed on 2500
1864 – boijmans museum, rotterdam, destroyed 198 dutch old master paintings
1856 – second royal opera house fire in london, england
1870 – wickford bank fire, rhode island, destroyed 160 years of town records kept in bank vault source (records multiple towns today such narragansett, north kingstown, etc.)
1871 – fires deliberately set during paris commune in may destroyed royal palace of tuileries, louvre library, palais de justice, hôtel de ville, gare de lyon, , palais d orsay.
1871 – fires occur throughout great lakes region of united states, including great chicago fire, peshtigo fire, , great michigan fire
1875 – precious blood church in holyoke massachusetts burned , killed 78 people
1876 – brooklyn theater fire, killed 273–300 in brooklyn, new york
1877 – great fire of saint john, new brunswick
1877 – second u.s. patent office fire in washington, d.c.
1877 – saint-stephen cathedral, metz
1878 – eldkvarn flour mill in stockholm.
1878 – washburn mill flour mill explosion , fire in minneapolis, minnesota
1881 – ring theater fire, killed 850 in vienna
1884 – christiansborg palace, copenhagen
1886 – great vancouver fire
1887 – paris opéra fire on may 25 killed 200
1887 – theatre royal, exeter fire, england on september 5 killed 186
1893 – world s columbian exposition cold storage warehouse fire in chicago, illinois killed 18 on july 10
1893 – merrill house fire in beaver, pennsylvania, killed 7 on november 21
1893 – edison, moore & company dry goods store fire in detroit, michigan, killed 7 on november 23
1895 – rotunda, university of virginia, in charlottesville, virginia
1897 – fire @ bazar de la charité, paris on may 4 killed 126, women
1897 – cold storage fire on fairgrounds in chicago, illinois, killed 17 firefighters on july 10
1897 – fire in dawson city occurred on november 25, 1897
1899 – windsor hotel east 47th street/5th avenue manhattan, new york—at least 33 , 45 people killed (estimates vary)




^ wickford national bank - ricurrency.com . retrieved 31 march 2017.