
During the performance, cannon misfire caught the thatched roof on fire and the Theatre burned down. 1608 – First settlement in Jamestown burnt.1577 – Fire in the Doge's Palace, Venice, destroyed major works by Bellini, Titian and Tintoretto.1568 – The Great Fire of Ferrol which reduced the old medieval town to rubble.1561 – Fire of Valladolid (September 21) destroys a tenth of the city, including 440 houses.1190 – Fire at Clifford's Tower, York, England, killed at least 150 Jews.1184 – Lightning causes a fire at McDermott's Castle, Ireland, with 120–140 deaths.642 – later sources attribute burning to Caliph Omar during the Muslim conquest of Egypt.391 – Library of Alexandria possibly burned by order of Roman Emperor Theodosius I.


480 BC – Acropolis of Athens burnt during the second Persian invasion of Greece.586 BC – First Temple in Jerusalem burned by Nebuchadnezzar, king of the Babylonians.
