The Palace of Westminster in London is destroyed by fire

Wann

16. Okt. 1834

Art

Ereignis

Koordinaten

51.50° N, 0.12° W

Platziert: coordinates of the event it links, Burning of Parliament.

The Palace of Westminster in London is destroyed by fire, along with both the House of Commons and the House of Lords (which are not in session) of the British Parliament. An investigation later traces the disaster to an order from the Exchequer to the Board of Works to destroy the tally sticks that had been stored as part of record keeping, the use of the furnaces beneath the House of Lords to carry out the task, and the failure of authorities to stop the work or to fight the fire after smoke had first been detected, the conclusion being that the fire was "wholly attributable to carelessness and negligence."

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