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===The Great Fire of London that razed the city of London, England, from Sunday 2 September to Tuesday, September 4, 1666. The fire destroyed the medieval city of London inside the old Roman city wall. === ===It destroyed 13,200 houses,87 parish churches, 44 halls of the Livery Company, the Royal Exchange, Customs House, the Cathedral of St. Paul, the City of London, the place Corrections and other prisons in the city, four bridges over rivers Thames and Fleet, and three city gates. 80,000 people left homeless. The death toll is unknow and is thoght to have been quite small because only flew deaths were recorded. === ===The fire broke out on Sunday morning September 2, 1666. It started in Pudding Lane in the house of Thomas Farynor, baker to King Charles II of England and spread rapidly. === ===For when they were ordered large-scale demolitions during the night of Sunday, the wind had turned the bakery fire into a firestorm which defeated such measures. On Monday the fire was pushed north in the heart of t ﻿he city. ===