10 Epic Natural Disasters From Throughout History

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10. Peshtigo Fire
9. Ch’ing-yang event
8. Calcutta cyclone
7. Dadu river landslide dam
6. Coringa cyclones
5. Krakatoa volcanic eruption of 1883
4. Shaanxi earthquake
3. Yellow River floods of China
2. The great European famine
1. Plague of Justitian

Source/Further reading:

https://www.history.com/topics/19th-century/great-chicago-fire

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/stormsurge-stormtide.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169555X04002041
http://hurricanescience.net/history/storms/pre1900s/1839/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa
https://www.britannica.com/event/Shaanxi-province-earthquake-of-1556
https://www.britannica.com/event/Huang-He-floods
http://www.halinaking.co.uk/Location/Yorkshire/Frames/History/1315%20Great%20Famine/Great%20Famine.htm
https://www.britannica.com/science/plague/History#ref1217512

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  1. Not mentioned: the bolide impact that formed the Burckle crater in the Indian Ocean that sent a wall of water probably 500 feet high into Iraq and other surrounding countries – the effect of which is still evident in the chevrons eroded into surrounding land. As it happened about the year 2850, all we have for records are the subsequent myths recorded in the Eridu Genesis, the Epic of Atrahasis, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and eventually the flood of Noah. Death toll? Everyone except [Ziusudra | Atrahasis | Utnapishtim | Noah] and his wife. 🙂

  2. If you ask a current year scammer they will blame all of these on global warming (or climate change, or whatever the scam is being rebranded into these days.)

  3. Watching this vid and low and behold….. patrick steward commercial! Are you having patrick steward open for you now? Cheers and keep the trivia info rolling. Actually answered a few questions before from just your vids!

  4. justin…ian?? ohh that must be the emperor of canada!! there is a plague coming?? get paul revere and tell him to ride quickly.

  5. It's interesting that no hurricanes/typhoons made this list. I live in the Bahamas so the nightmare of Dorian is still fresh.
    I look at these and realize it could have been worse but somehow that doesn't make me feel better about the horrors 2 major islands of my country went through.

  6. Sir Whistler, an honor to hear your narration. I never knew about Westigo. The disasters that are occurring not might heard world round too (war I mean by that). Excellent show ‘ol boy! Natural disasters will always occur, but the report has opened my eyes. I knew about a few of them. Thanks again for your show.

  7. Why didn't you include any snow fall over an inch in England the country stops and food runs out mean while Sweden gets 4ft and not even school shuts haha

  8. About the Justinian plague: Procopius of Cesarea wrote that in travelling through Libya( it`s North Africa) he could travel for days without seeing a living human being!

  9. The current fires here in Australia are devastating our country to the point we could be in the running to make this list. Australia has been burning since November and its only getting worse, they are now estimating that over a billion animals have been killed, and just today another firefighter lost his life trying to save his country.

  10. My in laws live in Peshtigo, Wisconsin and there is a museum there about the fire. I had never heard of the Peshtigo fire until I visited the town.

  11. Fun fact about the Peshtigo fire: William Ogden, former mayor of Chicago and one of its founding fathers, owned a large tract of land and a lumber mill in Peshtigo. He lost millions as Chicago burned but also as Peshtigo burned. He continued to pay his lumber workers as they rebuilt and is considered a hero in Peshtigo to this day, in addition to having streets, etc named after him in Chicago.

  12. The first image you used is from germany…a Country that doesn't really have natural disasters^^
    Floods…sure…Minor Earthquakes that often go unnoticed by the public…Heavy rain…Storms…
    Nothing too scary or lethal tho. Climate change will give us some bigger wildfires and more of the above but we don't belong in this video^^

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