List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom
This is a 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