1881 – Ringtheater fire, Vienna, Austria, killed at least 384.1876 – Brooklyn Theater fire, Brooklyn, New York, killed 273–300.1875 – Precious Blood Church fire in Holyoke, Massachusetts, burned and killed 78.
1874 – Olympic Theatre destroyed by fire, killing two firefighters.1870 – Wickford Bank Fire, Rhode Island, destroyed 160 years of town records kept in bank vault (records for what are multiple towns today such as Narragansett, North Kingstown, etc.).1870 – Château de Saint-Cloud destroyed by fire, October 13, 1870.1864 – Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, destroyed 198 Dutch Old Master paintings.1863 – Church of the Company Fire in Santiago, Chile killed over 2,500.1856 – Second Royal Opera House fire in London, England.Augustine's Roman Catholic Churches during the Philadelphia nativist riots, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Petersburg, Russia destroyed except for The Hermitage. 1836 – Fire at Chartres Cathedral destroyed the sweet chestnut "forest" above the vaults.1834 – Burning of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster, home to Parliament of the United Kingdom.Turner watched the Palace of Westminster fire in 1834 and painted several canvases depicting it, including The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) 1823 – Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.1814 – The White House and United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.1811 – Richmond Theatre fire, Richmond, Virginia.Officially 1 dead, in reality at least 91. 1810 – Austrian embassy fire (fr), Paris.Much of the south and east portions of the palace were destroyed and not rebuilt. 1808 – First Royal Opera House fire in London, England.The fire caused the dome of the Rotunda to collapse, smashing the Edicule's exterior decoration. 1808 – Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem.1794 – Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen.1772 – Hôtel-Dieu de Paris fire in Paris, France.Eventually replaced by the present royal palace. 1734 – The Royal Palace of the Alcazar, Madrid, burned on Christmas Eve.1731 – Coudenberg Royal Palace, Brussels, destroyed and never rebuilt.1727 – Fire during puppet show in barn at Burwell, Cambridgeshire, England, killed 78 (including 51 children).1698 – The Tudor and Stuart Palace of Whitehall, London burned, except for Inigo Jones's Banqueting House.
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.272 – Library of Alexandria possibly burned during the occupation of Alexandria.48 BC – Library of Alexandria accidentally burned during siege by Julius Caesar.Evidence is scant for all four fires, but the library was eventually destroyed. Library of Alexandria destroyed by fire.70 AD – Second Temple in Jerusalem burned by Roman Empire troops under general Titus.356 BC – Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, arson by Herostratus.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.For major urban conflagrations, see List of town and city fires. This is a list of building or structure fires where a building or structure has caught fire. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.