What the records say
- When
- 4 Sep 1827
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 60.45° N, 22.27° E
- Description
- 1827 conflagration in Turku, Finland
- Deaths
- 27
Great Fire of Turku
1827 conflagration in Turku, Finland
The Great Fire of Turku was a conflagration in the city of Turku in 1827. It is still the largest urban fire in the history of Finland and the Nordic countries. The city had faced several large fires before, including an especially devastating one in 1681.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Great Fire of Turku destroys three-quarters of the city (at this time Finland's largest), with 27 human casualties”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “grand incendie de Turku (Abo)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Finlandia pasa el gran incendio de Turku, 28 muertos y la destrucción del 80% de la ciudad”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page