Kraków Fire of 1850

Kraków Fire of 1850
Fire of Kraków as painted by Baltazar Stachowicz. Gothic Basilica of the Holy Trinity at the Dominikanski Square (right of center).
DateJuly 18, 1850 (1850-07-18)
LocationKraków, Austrian Empire (now in Poland)
TypeFire

The Kraków Fire of 1850 started on 18 July and lasted several days. It is estimated to have destroyed about 10 percent of the city of Kraków, which was then part of the Austrian Empire's district of the Grand Duchy.