| Fire |
| Earthquakes, floods, cyclones |
| Wars, revolutions, civil unrest | |||
| Sold, auctions, confiscations |
| Various or undetermined methods of destruction |
| Undetermined location for state (US) or country | |||
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Book Town or Village | Total |
Location of libraries, archives, and religious sites (events, for brevity) that disappeared or were dispersed. Current and proposed book towns and villages are included for reference. The events are loaded chronologically, from 3000 B.C. to the present. All these events affected, in one or other way, the transmission of knowledge. This is a small sample of the events available in
"Abridged Chronology of Destroyed Libraries." If you know of any event that is not included, or there is an inaccurary in the description, location, or dates, please email the addition or the correction, resp., to cda AT alum.mit.edu.
Data compiled by the author. Maps drawn using the Google Maps API. Screen sample of the World, UK, and London's fire (1666).
Center of the map: Latitude = ; Longitude = .