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★ c.5000BC Tsunami struck east Scotland with 70 foot wave after landslip in Norway.

★ 1348 Black Death

★ 1485 Sweating sickness epidemic

★ 1507 Sweating sickness epidemic

★ 1517 Sweating sickness epidemic

★ 1528 Sweating sickness epidemic

★ 1551 Sweating sickness epidemic

★ 1580 Dover Straits earthquake of 1580

★ 1607 Bristol Channel floods, 20 January 1607 (possible tsunami)

★ 1607 Lynmouth flooding, Devon

★ 1638 The Great Thunderstorm, Widecombe-in-the-Moor, Devon

★ 1665 Great Plague of London

★ 1703 The Great Storm of 1703

★ 1729 Tornado in Sussex - Bexhill-on-Sea to Linkhill

★ 1740 Great Irish Famine (1740-1741)

★ 1755 Tsunami struck Cornwall with 3 metre wave after Lisbon earthquake

★ 1776 Dover Straits Earthquake

★ 1783 "Laki haze" of sulphurous gas from eruption in Iceland poisons est.30,000 in UK, plus est.8,000 deaths in winter.

★ 1796 Lynmouth flooding, Devon

★ 1832 Cholera Epidemic

★ 1836 Avalanche in Lewes, the only major avalanche recorded in England [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]

★ 1846–1849 Great Irish Famine, Ireland

★ 1881 Eyemouth Disaster, storm, Scotland

★ 1884 Colchester earthquake, Essex

★ 1918–1919 Flu epidemic

★ 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake

★ 1947 Winter of 1946-1947 blizzards and deep freezes followed by heavy spring flooding

★ 1952 Lynmouth flooding, Devon [6], [7], [8], [9]

★ 1952 Great Smog of 1952, London

★ 1953 North Sea Flood of 1953, England

★ 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 [10],[11],
[12], [13], [14],[15], [16], [17],

★ 2003 European record breaking heatwave

★ 2004 Boscastle flooding, Cornwall

★ 2005 Carlisle flood, 8 January 2005 [18], [19]

★ 2007 Summer 2007 United Kingdom floods affected many parts of the UK, especially the Sheffield area, Hull, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.

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See also

★ List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll

★ UK topics

★ Climate of the United Kingdom

★ Geology of the United Kingdom

★ List of disasters