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300,000 to 480,000[ 2 ] Great Irish Famine of 1740–41 (The Great Frost) 1740–1741. Some estimates indicate a death toll as high as 500,000 from starvation and disease. [ 3 ][ 4 ] 250,000. 1918 influenza pandemic. 1918 (Sep–Nov) An estimated 200,000 people died in England and Wales. [ 5 ]
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.
2018 British Isles cold wave. Anticyclone Hartmut (dubbed the Beast from the East (Irish: An Torathar ón Oirthear) [ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ]) was a storm that began on 22 February 2018, and brought a cold wave to Great Britain and Ireland. Anticyclone Hartmut also brought widespread unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfall to large areas. [ 8 ]
The east coast of Scotland was struck by a 21 m (70 ft) high tsunami around 6100 BC, during the Mesolithic period. The wave was caused by the massive underwater Storegga slide off Norway. The tsunami even washed over some of the Shetland Islands. Tsunamite (the deposits left by a tsunami) dating from this event can be found at various locations ...
For natural disasters in the British Isles, see: List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom. List of natural disasters in Ireland. This article includes a list of lists. Category:
Irish Famine, 1879 (An Gorta Beag) The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [ 1 ][ 2 ] was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major ...
At the time, this was the most severe storm over the British Isles. 1974–76: Two-year drought and 1976 British Isles heatwave: 1974-1975 was the mildest winter in England and Wales since 1869. However, during the first few days of June 1975, in and around London snow and sleet occurred.
The burning of Cork (Irish: Dó Chorcaí) [1][2] by British forces took place on the night of 11–12 December 1920, during the Irish War of Independence. It followed an Irish Republican Army (IRA) ambush of a British Auxiliary patrol in the city, which wounded twelve Auxiliaries, one fatally. In retaliation, the Auxiliaries, Black and Tans and ...