Gilded Age · event 5 of 14

16 December 1835

The Great Fire of 1835. In a temperature of minus seventeen Celsius, with the East River and the hydrants frozen, fire destroys almost the entire business district — between 600 and 700 buildings across seventeen blocks. Nearly every fire insurance company in the city is bankrupted.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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