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Great Stink

event in central London in July and August 1858
Thing environmental_disaster Q546233
Great Stink
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Facts

9 properties
Instance of
environmental disaster
Country
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland[2]
Location
Central London[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 51.507°, 0.128°
End time
August 1858[5]
Has cause
odor[7]
Native label
the Great Stink[8]
Point in time
August 1858[6]
Start time
July 1858[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Great Stink ar كارثة الرائحة الكريهة cs Velký zápach de Der Große Gestank el Μεγάλη Δυσωδία es El Gran Hedor fi Suuri löyhkä fr La Grande Puanteur he הסירחון הגדול id Bau Besar it La Grande Puzza ja 大悪臭 ko 대악취 pl Wielki Smród pt Grande Fedor ru Великое зловоние tr Büyük Koku uk Великий сморід zh 倫敦大惡臭 zh 大惡臭
🔖 Identifiers · 4
Library of Congress authority ID
sh99013337
Freebase ID
/m/05lxsq
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007556503305171
Yale LUX ID
concept/49717820-998e-4a32-ae2e-4a5760963ab6

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🔗 Connections
Instance of 2
odor, environmental disaster
Country 1
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Location 1
Central London
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Summary

Great Stink is an environmental disaster[1].

Related Entities

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · AHIOH · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has cause → odor
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has cause: water pollution"
  2. 23w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    End time → —
    Start time → +1858-07-00T00:00:00Z
    Point in time → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007556503305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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