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    The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the largest fire in the history of Copenhagen, Denmark. It began on the evening of 20 October 1728 and continued to burn...
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  • buildings and other features, as it appeared Anno 1728, immediately before the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The map shown here was published by Oluf Nielsen...
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    housing. The fire had, together with Copenhagen's fire of 1728, in effect burned down almost the whole of Copenhagen's medieval and Renaissance heritage...
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    great Copenhagen fire of 1728. The second city hall was built in 1728 and was designed by J.C. Ernst and J.C. Krieger. It burned down in the Copenhagen fire...
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  • of the oldest known medieval Icelandic manuscripts, dating to the 8th century. The original manuscript was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728,...
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    Bengal and the nation of Bangladesh. Late Summer – Voltaire ends his exile in England. October 20–23 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 (the largest in the Danish...
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    Kultorvet (category Squares in Copenhagen)
    over by Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College. Kultorvet was created after the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 which destroyed a large part of the city. It was...
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    Vestergade 20 (category Listed buildings and structures in Copenhagen)
    in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The site was 17.5 m wide and 54 m deep at the deepest place. The house was soon rebuilt and now consisted of a building...
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    of its infrastructure. The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the largest in the history of Copenhagen. It began on the evening of 20 October, and continued to...
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    A new, fourth City Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, was built between Gammeltorv and Nytorv in 1728 on the foundations of its predecessor which had been destroyed...
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    Flateyjarbók (category Cultural depictions of Harald Hardrada)
    eddukvæða). It and Flateyjarbók survived the Copenhagen Fire of 1728 and the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 and were eventually repatriated to Iceland...
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    Castle, Hirschholm Palace, and Odense Palace. Following the Copenhagen Fire of 1728, he was involved in the plan to reconstruct the city using brick-faced...
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    being damaged in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. Prior to her marriage to King Christian V of Denmark in 1667, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel had requested...
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    1644 until 1728 in Copenhagen, Denmark. There are references to a modest lectorium medicorum in Copenhagen from 1605 but in 1621 the statutes of the university...
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    Vestergade 14 (category Listed buildings and structures in Copenhagen)
    times. Present day No. 14 consisted of two lots when the entire area was destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The (eastern) lot at the corner measured...
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    although no clear documentation exists. The church burned in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. "Historie". Helligåndskirken. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02...
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    Gammel Strand (category Squares in Copenhagen)
    opened in South Harbour. Most of the buildings along Gammel Strand were completedly destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1795. It began in a coal and timber...
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    in Copenhagen, Denmark, was built at Gammeltorv in 1479. Rebuilt by King Christian IV into the Renaissance style in 1610, it was in use until 1728 when...
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  • buildings destroyed, making 1,200 families homeless. 1728 – Copenhagen Fire of 1728, Denmark, two-fifths of the city burned down during three days. 3,650 families...
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    this, the University surpassed the Royal Library in size. In the Copenhagen Fire of 1728, the University Library was devastated and 30,000 volumes were...
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    Runestone and the Gummarp Runestone, which were moved to Copenhagen and lost in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The Stentoften, Istaby Runestone and Gummarp Runestone...
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  • Vatnshyrna was a major Icelandic saga codex destroyed in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. It was copied between 1391 and 1395 by Magnús Þórhallsson for Jón...
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    Conflagration (redirect from Fire Disaster)
    large fire can produce a firestorm, in which the central column of rising heated air induces strong inward winds, which supply oxygen to the fire. Conflagrations...
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    Gammel Mønt (category Streets in Copenhagen)
    the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. All except one of the houses on the south side of the street are listed. They are representatives of the so-called fire houses...
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    Runestone and the Gummarp Runestone, which was moved to Copenhagen and lost in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The Stentoften, Istaby and Gummarp inscriptions can...
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    Gråbrødretorv 13 (category Listed residential buildings in Copenhagen)
    "fire houses" which were constructed as part of the rebuilding of the city following the Copenhagen Fire of 1728, although the fourth floor was not added...
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    Fiolstræde 18 (category Listed residential buildings in Copenhagen)
    of the bebuilding of the city following the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. It was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1939. On...
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    Matthias Hansen House (category Houses in Copenhagen)
    6) in central Copenhagen, Denmark. Built in 1616, it is one of few buildings of its kind which has survived the Copenhagen Fires of 1728 and 1795. The...
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    removed from Trondheim to Copenhagen in 1664 and subsequently lost, probably in the Copenhagen Fire of 1728. The precise date of rediscovery is uncertain...
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    Fiskebløderhuset (category Listed buildings and structures in Copenhagen)
    Copenhagen Fire of 1728. A limestone tablet above the main entrance commemorates the fire. The property was listed in Copenhagen's first cadastre of 1689 as...
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