6 July 1772 – 1789 · 1794 or 1795 · 1813 A church, a fire and a floodKostol, požiar a povodeň

Having lost its old church, the Reformed congregation worshipped in a wooden chapel in the cemetery until it was given permission on 6 July 1772 to build in stone; the church was finished in 1773 and its tower in 1789. Then the town burned almost completely — Slovak sources date the fire to 1794, Hungarian ones to 1795 — and a library of five thousand volumes went with it, an extraordinary thing to lose in a town this size. In 1813 the Bodva flooded. A wooden town on a river, in the age before fire brigades and river regulation, lived with both of those as ordinary risks rather than disasters.Reformovaný zbor prišiel o starý kostol a modlil sa v drevenej kaplnke na cintoríne, kým 6. júla 1772 nedostal povolenie stavať z kameňa; kostol dokončili v roku 1773 a vežu v roku 1789. Potom mesto takmer celé zhorelo — slovenské pramene kladú požiar do roku 1794, maďarské do roku 1795 — a s ním aj knižnica s piatimi tisíckami zväzkov, čo je na mesto tejto veľkosti mimoriadna strata. V roku 1813 sa vyliala Bodva. Drevené mesto pri rieke v časoch pred hasičmi a pred reguláciou tokov brávalo oboje skôr ako bežné riziko než ako katastrofu.