AD 1400-1500

  

Year

Month

Day

Location 

Phenomenon

Description

A

1402

March

21

Europe

Comet 

Perihelion of great comet. Visible day & night Seen Feb. 21-Apr.10, Paris

M

1402

May

25

Essex, England

Tornado & ball lightning?               

'Apparition' damaged Danbury church 'Flashing of shining globes'

M

1402

September

7

Wales

Tornado

King's lances thrown.  Pierced armour

M

1403

December

18

Italy

Aurora

Great 'inflamed globe' at night

A

1406

June

16

English Channel

Solar eclipse

Alarmed French fleet

M

1407

 

 

England

Severe winter

Great frost for 25 weeks

M

1407-08

 

 

Europe

Severe winter          

Norway wolves reached Jutland across ice Rivers & Swiss lakes froze

A

1408

October

24

China

Supernova?

Yellow star in Niandao.  Motionless

M

1416

 

 

Bohemia

Coloured rain

Red rain fell

M

1421

November

18

Holland

Sea flood

72 villages lost.  10,000 drowned

G

1422

 

 

Eldey, Iceland

Volcano

Submarine eruption.  Island formed

G

1427

March

5

Amer, Spain

Earthquake

Every wall & house fell.  No fatalities

G

1427

April

2

Barcelona

Earthquake

10 or 12 shocks a day for 110 days

M

1431

November

20

Germany

Severe winter

Until March 4, 1432.  Rivers frozen

A

1433

June

17

Scotland

Solar eclipse

'Black Hour'

G

1434

 

 

Hekla, Iceland

Volcano

Damaging ash-fall

A

1438

 

 

Burgos, Spain

Meteorites

Many vesicular stones fell

A

1439

March

25

China

Comet

Tail 50 cubits long.  'Large like a ball'

M

1446

April

10

Europe

Storm

Thunder, snow & cold. Sea flood k. 100,000 Germany, France, Holland

M

1453

 

 

Constantinople

Aurora?

'Dazzling light' over town all night

G

1456

 

 

N. Atlantic

Submarine volcano

Between Iceland & Greenland Temporary island formed

A

1456

June

9

China, Europe

Halley's Comet

Perihelion.  Prodigious tail

M

1456

August

24

Ancona, Italy

Tornado

Crossed Italy W. to E.. Great damage

M

1459

 

 

Baltic Sea

Ice

Ice crossed from Denmark to Lubeck

A

1465

March

 

China

Comet

Tail 30 cubits long

A

1472

February

28

China, Europe

Comet

Great comet perihelion. Moved 40° in one day Seen in daylight

M

1473

 

 

England

Hot autumn

Harvesters died of heat

M

1478

 

 

England

Hot summer

4 months of great heat.  Pestilence

G

1480

December

28

England

Earthquake

Buildings thrown down.  Whole country

M

1490

January

10

Florence, Italy

Cold winter

River Arno froze.  Tennis on ice

M

1490

January

17

Florence, Italy

Glazed frost

Freezing rain broke trees

A

1490

February or March

Shansi Province,     

Shansi Province,      China

Meteorites

                                                         'Stones fell like rain' & killed over 10,000Largest size of goose eggs

A

1492

September

15

Atlantic

Meteor?

'Branch of fire' fell in sea.  Obs  Columbus

A

1492

November

7

Alsace

Meteorite

200 lb. stone, Ensisheim.  After explosion

M

1493

January

20

Florence, Italy

Blizzard

Streets blocked  by snow.  Violent wind

M

1495

October?

 

Santo Domingo

Hurricane

Experienced by Columbus.  3 ships sunk

M

1495

December

4

Rome

Flood

Great Tiber flood.  Many drowned

A

1496

January

26

Valdinoce, Italy

Meteorites

3 stones fell

M

1500

June

29

Rome

Squall & hail

Papal palace ruined.  Hail 3 ft. deep

A

1500

June

 

N. Africa

Meteor shower

'Stars fell like rain'


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