List of Destroyed Libraries - Fire

Fire

  • University of Copenhagen Library (Copenhagen) – October 1728
  • Cotton Library (Huntingdon, England UK) – 23 October 1731
  • Library of Congress (Washington, D.C. USA) – 25 August 1814
  • Birmingham Central Library (Birmingham, England) – 1879
  • University of Virginia Library (Charlottesville, Virginia USA) – 27 October 1895
  • New York State Library (Albany, New York USA) – 29 March 1911
  • British Library (London, England UK) – World War II
  • Jewish Theological Seminary library fire (New York City) – April 18, 1966
  • Charles A. Halbert Public Library – 1982
  • Dalhousie University Law Library (Halifax, Nova Scotia) – August 1985
  • Los Angeles Central Library (Los Angeles, California USA) – 29 April and 3 September 1986
  • Academy of Sciences Library (Leningrad, USSR) – 14 April 1988
  • Iraq National Library (Baghdad, Iraq) – 15 April 2003
  • Duchess Anna Amalia Library (Weimar, Germany) – 2 September 2004

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