Codes: A=Astronomical event G=Geological M=Meteorological
Event Type |
Year A.D. |
Month |
Day |
Location |
Phenomenon |
Description |
G | 1702 |
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| Iceland | Glacier advance | Vatnajökull glacier covered summer pasture |
G | 1703 |
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| Switzerland | Glacier advance | Grindelwald glacier covers meadows |
G | 1703 | February | 2 | Aguila, Italy | Earthquake | 5,000 k. |
G | 1703 | February | 5 | Frederickstadt, Norway | Subsidence | ¼ mile area sank into abyss 100 fathoms deep. 14 persons & 400 cattle k. |
M | 1703 | November | 26 | England | Gale | The Great Storm. 8,000 k. at sea |
G | 1703 | December | 30 | Edo, Japan | Earthquake | 200,000 k. |
A | 1705 |
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| England | Solar flare? | A 'flash' on the Sun |
G | 1706 | May | 6 | Tenerife | Volcano | Garachio destroyed. Sea waves |
G | 1706 | November | 1 | Naples, Italy | Earthquake | 15,000 k. |
A | 1706 | May | 12 | Switzerland | Solar eclipse | Corona as 'white crown', 4 or 5° dia. |
G | 1707 | May | 18 | Santorin | Volcano | Eruption formed island |
M | 1707 | July | 8 | England | Heat | 'Divers persons died'. 'Hot Tuesday' |
G | 1707 | July | 28 | Vesuvius | Volcano | 'Pine-tree' ash cloud |
G | 1707 | October | 28 | Shikoku, Japan | Earthquake | 4,900 k. Tsunami |
G | 1707 | December | 16 | Fuji, Japan | Volcano | Ash 6 ins. deep in Edo, 70 miles away |
M | 1708 | June | 12 | England | Summer cold | A hoar frost |
M | 1708 | October |
| Europe | Severe winter | To March 1708 |
G | 1711 |
|
| Awu, Celebes | Volcano | Mudflows k. 3,177 |
M | 1715 | February |
| Ruden, Norway | Blizzard | 7,000 Swedish soldiers froze to death |
A | 1715 | April | 22 | England | Solar eclipse | Halley obs. corona, white ring & fainter rays |
M | 1716 |
|
| L'vov, Ukraine | Coloured rain | Red rain from red cloud |
M | 1716 | January | 22 | Europe | Cold winter | -4° F. in Paris, 22nd. Frost fair,London |
M | 1716 | March | 6 | Europe | Aurora | 'Greatest since 1574'. Obs. Halley |
G | 1716 | May |
| Algiers | Earthquake | 20,000 k. |
M | 1717 | December | 24 | North Sea coast | Sea flood | Germany, Holland, 11,000 drowned |
G | 1718 | January | 17 | Switzerland | Avalanche | Powder-snow fall k. 55 at Leukerbad |
A? | 1718? | March | 24 | Lethy Is., East Indies | Meteor? | Fiery mass fell & exploded, silver scaly jelly found |
A | 1719 | March | 19 | S. England | Meteor | 70 miles over Channel, 30 explosions |
G | 1720 |
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| Norway | Glacier advance | Farm & harvests destroyed |
G | 1720 | November | 12 | Azores | Volcano | Submarine eruption formed island |
M | 1720 | November | 25 | England | Aurora | 'Great lights' over Bristol |
M? | 1721 | February | 14 | Switzerland | Ball lightning? | 2 globes of fire fell on successive nights |
G | 1721 | April | 26 | Persia | Earthquake | Tabriz ruined, 8,000 k. |
M | 1722 | August | 22 | Jamaica | Hurricane | Whole island devastated, 400 k. |
M | 1722 | October | 3 | Europe & America | Aurora | Seen Paris, Berlin, New York &c. |
A | 1723 | June | 22 | Bohemia | Meteorites | 33 stones fell, Plescowitz. Great noise |
A | 1725 | July | 3 | Oxfordshire | Meteorite | 20 lb. stone fell at Mixbury |
A | 1725 | October | 22 | At sea nr Petapako | Meteor | Meteor & great detonations |
G | 1726 | September | 1 | Palermo, Italy | Earthquake | 6,000 k. |
M | 1726 | October | 8 | S. England | Aurora | All parts of sky. Corona at zenith |
G | 1727 | July | 19 | England | Earthquake | 'All over England' |
G | 1727 | November | 18 | Tabriz, Persia | Earthquake | 77,000 k. |
M | 1728 | September | 19 | Germany | Cold winter | All rivers froze. Till March 1729 |
A | 1729 |
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| Comet | Perihelion distance of Jupiter's orbit Visible to naked eye 6 months |
M | 1729 | May | 20 | Sussex | Tornado | 1,000s of trees fell, track 12 miles long |
G | 1730 | July | 8 | St. Jago, Chile | Earthquake | City wrecked. 'Inundation' |
G | 1730 | September | 1 | Lanzarote, Canary Is | Volcano | Great fissureeruption begins; lasts to 1736 W. quarter of island lost to lava |
G | 1731 | November | 30 | Peking, China | Earthquake | 100,000 k. |
G | 1731 | December | 9 | Florence, Italy | Earthquake | Luminous cloud moved rapidly E to W |
M | 1732 | May | 1 | Scotland | Late snow | Great snow in Edinburgh |
G | 1732 | September | 6 | Canada | Earthquake | 7 k. in Montreal. Date OS |
G? | 1732 | December |
| Prague,Bohemia | Forest fire? | Flames in the mountains. Cont. into Jan |
M | 1732 | December | 23 | Yorkshire | Tornado | 38 buildings wrecked |
M | 1733 | March |
| Moscow | Cold | 100 froze to death |
M | 1733 | June | 14? | Annapolis Royal | Obscuration | Strange darkness, no fog or dark clouds |
G | 1734 | August |
| Iceland | Earthquake | 100 houses & 5 churches fell. Note this EQ was not, as has been said, in Ireland |
M | 1735 | January | 6 | Siberia | Cold | '120 below 0 F.' at Kirenginiki |
M | 1736 | February | 21 | E. England | Sea flood | 1,000s of cattle drowned |
G | 1736 | April | 30 | Ochil, Scotland | Earthquake | Several houses 'rent'. Again May 1 |
M | 1736 |
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| Finland | Heat & fires | Smoke reached Moscow |
M | 1736 | July | 5 | England | Floods | All low meadows flooded. Heavy rain |
M | 1736 | September | 14 | Constantinople |