Encyclopedia of world history (facts on file library of world history) 7 volume set ( PDFDrive ) 1807

86 Chicago Fire (1871) A Currier & Ives print of the Great Chicago Fire on Sunday, October 8, 1871 The fire panicked citizens and caused widespread damage but produced a reinvented, modern city in its wake Rama I died on September 7, 1809, in Bangkok and was succeeded by his son, Prince Isarasundorn, as King Rama II He left a legacy in Thai history as a patron of literature, a lawmaker, and a builder of empire See also Burmese Wars, First, Second, and Third; Rama v Further reading: Cady, John F Thailand, Burma, Laos, & Cambodia Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966; Hall, D G E A History of South-East Asia New York: St Martins Press, 1968; Tarling, Nicholas, ed., The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; Wenk, Klaus The Restoration of Thailand under Rama I Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1968; Wyatt, David K Thailand: A Short History New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986 Patit Paban Mishra Chicago Fire (1871) The fast-moving blaze that consumed more than three square miles of Chicago, Illinois, causing the Chicago River to boil, killing at least 300, and leaving 90,000 homeless, would, within two decades, produce a reinvented city more prosperous and beautiful than had seemed possible when the fire burned itself out after 36 hours In the process of renewal, the Great Fire tested the ability of politicians, magnates, and ordinary city dwellers to deal effectively with the human causes and outcomes of natural disaster Chicago, 37 years old in the tinder-dry summer of 1871, was a fast-growing, 35-square-mile city of 300,000 Located at the confluence of Lake Michigan, major canals, and a growing railroad network, the city was a place of fevered speculation and rapid growth that produced showy mansions abutting the