The arrival of Halley's Comet, named after British astronomer Edmond Halley, wows the Earth every 75 years or so. However, the disastrous fire claimed only 10 lives: the work of the Devil, perhaps, but not exactly Earth-ending material. 2, 1666, a fire started in a London bakery, destroying more than 13,000 buildings and tens of thousands of homes over the course of three days, Time reported. The 1599 plague that ravaged Europe didn't help matters much. The deluge of volcanic ash "shrouded the city in a darkness … like the black of closed and unlighted rooms," according to one witness, echoing the predictions of Roman philosopher Seneca that the Earth would go up in smoke, according to National Geographic.Īccording to the Bible's Book of Revelation, the number 666 is described as the "mark of the beast" - which put Christian Europeans into a tizzy as the year 1666 approached, according to Time Magazine.
The infamous Italian volcano has erupted more than 50 times over its hundreds of thousands of years of activity, but no eruption was more earth-shattering than the one that engulfed Pompeii in the year 79, reported.
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