While this sets Gyldayn’s act of writing around the start of A Song of Ice and Fire (ASoIaF), the actual events recounted in the archmaester's history begin 300 years before A Game of Thrones ...

BAY PORT, MI — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25, almost by accident. “Great Fire of 1881” the ...

The Great Fire of London in 1666, which razed 436 acres of the mostly-timber city and lasted for four days, was so devastating it secured its place in the history books.

The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 — terrible, costly, deadly — changed the city in myriad ways. And it had a big hand in making Chicago an architectural capital.

This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. It may sound strange to call something so deadly "great," but it suits Chicago's self-image as a place where things are bigger ...

It was 150 years ago that Mrs. O’Leary’s cow kicked over a candle, touching off the Great Chicago Fire, or so the legend goes. The blaze, which burned for three days in October 1871, killed ...

News Scores of Chicago property records burned in the Great Fire of 1871. Their destruction — and re-creation — might hold lessons for the future. E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune 1 of 8 ...

Today is the anniversary of a fire that destroyed 20% of New York City, on Sept. 21, 1776. You’ve probably never heard of this fire, which is what the Founding Fathers intended. The Great New ...

The day before the Great Chicago Fire, the Chicago Tribune published the latest installment of an editorial crusade for a public library, a cause seemingly reduced to ashes along with the city on ...

Nov. 9 marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Fire of 1872, a devastating blaze that leveled a large chunk of downtown Boston, burning down buildings and turning city blocks into piles of ...