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MINUTES OF PKOCEEDINGS OF 
Date. 
Place. 
Number of persons 
N ature and extent of 
damage to property. 
Cause of 
explosion. 
Remarks, 
killed. 
injured. 
A.D. 
1649 
4 Jan. 
London, Tower Street... 
p 
3000 
? 
60 houses blown up. 
? 
37 barrels of gunpowder 
exploded in a shop. 
1654 
( 
_ 
? 
Explosion of maga¬ 
zine. 
11 Mar. 
? 
1658-j 
6 Aug. 
29 Dee. 
Nil. 
_ 
■ 
? 
3explosions (unattended 
with loss of life). 
) ° UnS0Wllb . 
1693 
_ 
100 
_ 
_ 
? 
218 barrels of gunpow¬ 
Lightning. 
der exploded. 
1739 
10 Sept. 
11 Aug. 
40 
— 
lOOOhouses destroyed 
Town greatly dam¬ 
aged. 
1762 
P 
? 
„ 
1762 
15 Oct. 
— 
_ 
Goree nearly de¬ 
stroyed. 
„ 
1765 
3 Dee. 
_ 
_ 
Two mills blown up. 
Mills blown up. 
? 
1767 
1 Jan. 
Faversham, Royal Mills. 
— . 
— 
? 
1768 
10 May 
Ewell..... 
_ 
_ 
Destruction to the 
amount of £8000. 
? 
1769 
18 Aug. 
3000 
_ 
_ 
Lightning. 
1769 
400 
_ 
1770 
1 Sept. 
27 „ 
1 
1 horse killed. 
? 
1770 
1771 
1 
? 
18 „ 
3 
_ 
_ 
? 
1772 
6 Jan. 
_ 
Three powder mills 
blown up. 
? 
1772 
300 
_ 
Trichinopili blown 
up; 340,000 ball 
cartridges destroy¬ 
ed, and the whole 
foundations shaken 
? 
1772 
5 Nov. 
Chester.. 
See remarks. 
_ 
Several houses great¬ 
ly damaged. 
Lightning. 
Destroyed many spec¬ 
tators at a puppet 
show. . 
1773 
_ 
Cambrav. 
18 
Several houses de¬ 
stroyed. 
n 
1773 
_ 
Abbeville. 
150 
_ 
100 houses destroyed. 
II 
1774 
24 Apr. 
20 Aug. 
16 „ 
Hounslow . 
2 
_ 
? 
1776 
Picardy . 
Several. 
_ 
_ 
? 
1777 
The Epsom Mills . 
_ 
Mills blown up. 
Town received great 
damage. 
i> 
1779 
26 June 
Vienna. 
Several. 
_ 
? 
1779 
Sept. 
Civita Vecchia . 
_ 
__ 
Civita vecchia near¬ 
ly destroyed. 
p 
1780 
18 Aug. 
Mar. 
Malaga. 
_ 
_ 
_ 
Lightning. 
1782 
Sumatra . 
_ 
_ 
_ 
1785 
4 May 
11 Mar. 
Tangiers . 
_ 
_ 
_ 
n 
1789 
Corfu . 
180 
_ 
Magazine destroyed. 
Fire. 
72,000lbs. of gunpow¬ 
der and 600 bomb-shells 
blew up. 
1789 
3 Oct. 
Faversham. 
1 
_ 
_ 
? 
1790 
12 „ 
Dartford .. 
6 
? 
Great destruction 
occasioned. 
? 
1792 
28 June 
Poland, Luban . 
90 
Two synagogues and 
a great number of 
houses totally de¬ 
stroyed. All the 
windows in the 
town broken. 
Fire. 
The axletrees of ten car¬ 
riages took Are that 
were conveying gun¬ 
powder to the army, 
occasioning a dreadful 
explosion. 
1793 
10 July 
"Bayonne ... 
100 j 
_ 
The chapel at the 
new castle was 
blown up. 
? 
1793 
Sept. 
3 a 
Von glial . 
? 
p 
Barracks blown up. 
All the adjacent 
? 
1794 
Grenelle, near Paris. 
3000 
? 
buildings destroyed 
by the blowing up 
of powder mills. 
? 
1794 
20 Dec. 
Landau..... 
? 
? 
Arsenal blown up. 
p 
1794 
31 „ 
Dartford. 
11 
p 
1796 
14 Jan. 
Hounslow . 
3 
■ ■■ 
Much property de¬ 
stroyed. 
? 
1796 
10 Aug. 
20 May 
Dartford. 
4 
_ 
? 
1798 
Battle . 
3 
_ 
Much property de¬ 
stroyed. 
? 
1799 
14 Jan. 
Dartford . 
3 
_ 
1799 
13 July 
Twickenham Common,,, 
4 | 
— 
Mill exploded. 
? 
