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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 ]
The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland (1649–1653) was the re-conquest of Ireland by the Commonwealth of England, led by Oliver Cromwell. It forms part of the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, and wider 1639 to 1653 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Modern estimates suggest that during this period, Ireland experienced a demographic loss totalling ...
3 November 1893. Explosion of dynamite cargo on the steamship Cabo Machichaco, in at the port of Santander, Spain, with more than 2,000 injured. [14] 581. 16 April 1947. Texas City disaster in the Port of Texas City, Texas, USA; over 5,000 were also injured. 575. 4 June 1989. Ufa train disaster in Ufa, Soviet Union.
1839. Night of the Big Wind. A European windstorm swept across Ireland causing hundreds of deaths and severe damage to property. Gusts were over 100 knots (190 km/h; 120 mph). 1840s. Great Famine (Ireland) Starvation events. Killed over 400,000 people from starvation and disease. 1918–19.
The famine was a defining moment in the history of Ireland, [3] which was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1922. The famine and its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, producing an estimated 2 million refugees and spurring a century-long population decline.
Hurricane Ophelia (known as Storm Ophelia in Ireland and the United Kingdom while extratropical) was regarded as the worst storm to affect Ireland in 50 years, and was also the easternmost Atlantic major hurricane [ nb 1 ] on record. [ 2 ] The tenth and final consecutive hurricane and the sixth major hurricane of the very active 2017 Atlantic ...
The official count of COVID-19 deaths as of December 2021 is slightly more than 5.4 million, according to World Health Organization's report in May 2022. WHO also said that the real numbers are far higher than the official tally because of unregistered deaths in countries without adequate reporting.
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...