when did the library of alexandria burn down
Destruction of the Library of Alexandria The ancient accounts by Plutarch, Aulus Gellius, Ammianus Marcellinus, and Orosius indicate that troops of Caesar accidentally burned the library down during or after the Siege of Alexandria in 48 BC.[3]
Public libraries in North America According to Edmund Farwell Slafter, the first public library was founded in Boston by the Rev. John Checkley at the Old State House sometime between 1711 when Boston's Old State House was built, and 1725.[6] In a letter to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Bennet, dated June 15, 1725, Checkley wrote: