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Wapping

district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets

6 dated entries naming Wapping, drawn from 6 separate years between 1682 CE and 1725 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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17th century

  • 1682November 22 – Nearly 1,000 houses in Wapping, London are destroyed in a fire.source

18th century

  • 1701May 23 – Scottish-born Captain William Kidd, having been imprisoned in Boston Gaol (Massachusetts) and Newgate Prison (London) and convicted by the High Court of Admiralty of piracy and the murder of one of his crew, is hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping (London). His body suffers gibbeting over the River Thames at Tilbury Point; ballads are already spreading the legend that he has left buried treasure in the Americas.source
  • 1716December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.source
  • 1718December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.source
  • 1719Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green (founded by Henry Raine), opens in Wapping (closed 2020).source
  • 1725A fire in Wapping, London, destroys 70 houses.source

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