- The Burning of the Houses of Parliament - Joseph Mallord William Turner. 1835 123cm x 93cm oil on canvas © Cleveland Museum of Art.
- ...1834, a fire, caused by the overheating of a stove burning used tally sticks, erupted in the old Palace of Westminster, the Houses of Parliament, and burned...
- ...thousands of Londoners who lined the south bank or crowded onto bridges across the Thames River to witness the burning of the Houses of Parliament.
- Burning of the Houses of Parliament. ... As the fire continued to burn, great efforts were expended to save the Parliament building.
- At half-past five in the evening, a friend of ours passed up Abingdon street and between the Houses of Parliament and the Abbey, when all was still, and as...
- For the 1849 fire in Montreal, see Burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal. For the 1916 fire in Ottawa, see Parliament Hill § Fire, rebuilding, and beyond.
- This article is converted from Wikipedia: Burning of Parliament.
- The Burning of Parliament was a great fire in London on 16 October 1834. ... Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Incendio del Parlamento del Reino Unido para niños.
- The blaze was caused by the burning of small wooden tally sticks which had been used as part of the accounting procedures of the Exchequer until 1826.
- Turner himself witnessed the Burning of Parliament from the south bank of the River Thames, opposite Westminster.