List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom

1348 Black Death
1485 Sweating sickness epidemic
1507 Sweating sickness epidemic
1517 Sweating sickness epidemic
1528 Sweating sickness epidemic
1551 Sweating sickness epidemic
1607 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
1638 The Great Thunderstorm, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon
1796 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
1832 Cholera Epidemic
1836 Avalanche in Lewes, the only major avalanche recorded in England.
1879 The Tay Bridge Disaster, bridge collapse, Scotland
1881 The Eyemouth Disaster, storm, Scotland [1] (http://sites.scran.ac.uk/secf_final/danger/links/link3.php)
1846 - 1849 Potato famine, Ireland
1884 Colchester earthquake, Essex
1918 - 1919 Flu epidemic
1952 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
1953 East coast floods, England [2] (http://www.geographypages.co.uk/1953floods.htm)
1966 Aberfan mudslide, Wales
1987 The Great Storm of 1987
1990 The Burns' Day storm
2000 Severe flooding in many parts of the UK. Among the worst hits are York, Shrewsbury, Lewes and Uckfield
2004 Boscastle flooding, Cornwall
2004 Landslides in Scotland

See also