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The last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. 65,000: Year Without a Summer: 1816: Famine and typhoid fever in Ireland [16] and food riots in England and France, caused by the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora affecting the weather. 60,000 [17] 1847–48 influenza pandemic: 1847–1848: Worldwide influenza outbreak. 52,627 [18 ...
Series on tornados on 27 October, particularly in England and Wales. This day was the only known time in British history where two tornados exceeded F3 on the Fujita scale. One tornado in Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil, resulted in hundreds of injuries and six deaths and is the deadliest-known tornado to occur in the UK. The damage caused was ...
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
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Disasters in the United Kingdom by year (195 C) Disasters in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies (4 C) Lists of disasters in the United Kingdom (2 C, 9 P)
A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcanic eruption, landslide, hurricanes, etc.
The 1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak is regarded as the largest recorded tornado outbreak in European history. In the span of 5 hours and 26 minutes during the late morning and early afternoon of 23 November 1981, 104 confirmed tornadoes touched down across Wales and central, northern and eastern England.
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