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Irish Famine (1740–1741) Somewhere between 310,000 and 480,000 people starve in Ireland due to cold weather affecting harvests. 1816–19: Typhus epidemic: Outbreak in Ireland. 1839: Night of the Big Wind: A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h ...
The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war [a]) which relate to the United Kingdom, Ireland or the Isle of Man, or to the states that preceded them, or that involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.
This is a timeline of Irish history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Ireland. To read about the background to these events, see History of Ireland . See also the list of Lords and Kings of Ireland , alongside Irish heads of state , and the list of years in Ireland .
The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beginning on the afternoon of 6 January 1839, causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths. 20 to 25% of houses in north Dublin were damaged or destroyed, and 42 ships were wrecked. [1]
2 Timeline of events. ... was set in August 1986, in the aftermath of Hurricane Charley. ... (decade) despite the worst rain in Irish history. ...
Irish military history timelines (2 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Irish history timelines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
This storm was described as the worst in Scotland since the Boxing Day Storm of 1998 by the UK Met Office. [141] Storm Andrea: 3–9 January 2012: 966 hPa (28.5 inHg) [142] Closely following Cyclone Ulli, the first named storm of 2012 formed southwest of Iceland, moving down into the North Sea affecting UK, Netherlands, Denmark and Germany ...
Storm tide 589: Breach at Cucca: Italy: 1170: All Saints' Flood (1170) Netherlands: probably many thousands: Storm surge 1287: South England flood of February 1287: England: probably many thousands: Storm surge 1287: St. Lucia's flood: Netherlands, Northern Germany, England: 50,000-80,000: Storm surge 1304: All Saints' Flood (1304) Germany: 271 ...