The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Meireki" id="mwWA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Fire of Meireki">Great Fire of Meireki</a> begins in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edo">Edo</a> (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>), Japan, causing more than 100,000 deaths before it exhausts itself three days later.