Codes: A=Astronomical event G=Geological M=Meteorological
Type | Year | Month | Day | Location | Phenomenon | Description |
G | 1300 | July | 10 | Hekla, Iceland | Volcano | Ash caused much damage. Lasted a year |
A | 1301 | October | 23 | Europe, China | Halley's Comet | Perihelion. Tail 70° long |
G | 1302 |
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| Ischia, Italy | Volcano | Lava flow for 2 months. Also Vesuvius |
G | 1303 | August | 8 | Egypt, Syria | Earthquake | Sea wave flooded Alexandria |
A | 1304 | October | 1 | Saale, Saxony | Meteorites | Several stones fell |
M | 1305 |
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| England | Hot summer | Burning heat & drought. Hay failed |
M | 1306 |
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| Japan? | Coloured rain | Orange rain k. many men & cattle |
M | 1308 |
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| China | Droughts, floods | 1st of many disasters. Famine, plague |
M | 1308 |
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| Italy | Aurora? | 'Great flame' after sunset from N. to S. |
M | 1313 |
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| China | Drought | Whole empire desolated |
M | 1315 |
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| Europe | Rain | Incessant rains followed by famine Polish poor ate hanged bodies |
M | 1316 |
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| England | Rain & floods | 2 years' heavy rain. Famine k. 1,000s |
M | 1317 | November | 19 | Dublin, Ireland | Gale | Houses prostrated |
M | 1318 |
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| China | Flood | 'Multitudes drowned' |
G | 1319 |
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| Armenia | Earthquake | Many towns ruined |
M | 1321 |
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| Ho-nan, China | Drought | Famine followed |
M | 1323 |
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| Denmark | Severe winter | S. Baltic frozen |
M | 1324 |
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| China | Earthquakes | Droughts, floods, locusts. Again in 1327 |
M | 1325 |
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| England | Ho summer | Drought; springs failed. Many cattle died |
G | 1328 | December | 1 | Rome, etc. | Earthquake | Norcia ruined. 5,000 k. |
M | 1330 |
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| China | Floods | Harvest ruined, famine |
G | 1332 |
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| Iceland | Submarine volcano | Eruption between Iceland & Greenland |
M | 1332 |
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| China | Floods | Rain & floods k. 7 million |
M | 1333 |
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| China | Drought, floods | 4000,000 k. in floods.. Famine |
M | 1333 |
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| Baltic | Ice | Solid ice from Denmark to Prussia |
M | 1334 |
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| China | Drought, floods | Famine & floods k. 13 million in S. provinces |
G | 1334 |
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| China | Earthquake | Created lake 100 leagues in circumference |
G | 1335 | May | 15 | Mugello, Italy | Earthquake | Great landslide followed. R. Arno disturbed |
A? | 1339 | July | 13 | Silesia | Meteorites? | 300 'thunderbolts' fell in storm |
G | 1341 | May | 19 | Hekla, Iceland | Volcano | Ash k. much livestock |
M | 1342 |
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| Vienna, Austria | Flood | Danube flood; 6,000 drowned |
G | 1343 |
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| Hekla, Iceland | Volcano | 11 farms destroyed |
G | 1344 |
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| China | Earthquake | Great tract inundated. Seismic sea wave |
G | 1344 |
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| Drontheim, Norway | River burst | R. Gaulen vanished & reappeared in flood, 250 drowned, 48 farms lost |
M | 1345 | July |
| Italy | Rain | Lasted 6 months. Then famine |
M | 1347 |
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| Ho-tong, China | Drought | Many died |
M | 1347 | January | 25 | Italy | Aurora? | 'Immense vapour' in N. |
M | 1347 |
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| Cyprus | Earthquake | Sea wave swept island. Much damage |
M | 1348 |
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| Iceland | Severe winter | Sea froze round Iceland |
G | 1348 | January | 25 | Italy | Earthquake | Italy shaken from Naples to Venice Felt Germany, Greece |
M | 1354 |
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| Italy | Aurora | Sky burned many hours |
G | 1356 | October | 18 | Basle | Earthquake | Castles & churches fell |
G | 1356 |
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| Ireland | Earthquake | 'Great loss of people' |
M | 1359 | February | 9 | Florence, Italy | Aurora | 'Inflamed vapour' at night.. 'Like a bridge' |
M | 1360 | May | 8 | Chartres, France | Hailstorm | 'Thousands perished' |
M | 1360 | September | 13 | Austria | Aurora | 4 'fiery rainbows' in N. at night |
M | 1361 | February | 25 | England | Aurora | 'Cloud like fire' at night |
M | 1361 | May | 27 | Boulogne, France | Halo cross? | 'Bloody cross' in sky all day; fell into sea Blood-rain in Burgundy, May |
G | 1361 | December | 27 | Sienna, Italy | Earthquake | Many buildings fell. 7 great shocks |
G | 1362 |
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| Oraefajokull, Iceland | Volcano | Subglacial eruption destroyed 30 farms & 17 churches |
M | 1362 | January | 13 | Britain | Gale | 'St. Maury's Wind'. Great S.W. storm |
M | 1363 | September | 16 | Europe | Severe winter | Terrible frost Sept.-April. Rhine frozen |
M | 1366 | January | 12 | England | Aurora | Red sky in E. at night. Red & white rays |
A | 1366 | October | 22 | Portugal | Meteor shower | 'Stars' fell thickly |
A | 1368 |
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| Germany | Meteorite | Mass of iron fell at Oldenburg |
M | 1368 | October |
| St. Denis, France | Tornado? | Trees torn up by roots, church hit by thunderbolt. 'Crows' with fire in beaks |
A | 1369 |
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| China | Meteorite? | 'Star' fell in river. Fire started |
M | 1370 |
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| Russia | Aurora | Red sky at night. Pillars in sky |
M | 1371 | October | 5 | Vicenzo, Italy | Aurora | 'Inflamed smoke' at night. Great light |
G | 1372 |
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| Iceland | Submarine volcano | Eruption between Iceland & Greenland Formed temporary island |
G | 1372 |
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| Arragon, Spain | Earthquake | 'Terrible earthquakes'. Mountains fell |
A | 1373 | May |
| China | Comets | 3 comets seen |
M | 1375 | May | 10 | Italy | Aurora | Burning fire at night. Moved N. to S. |
A | 1378 | November | 9 | China | Halley's Comet | Perihelion |
A | 1379 | May | 26 | Germany | Meteorites | Several stones fell at Minden |
G | 1381 | May | 21 | England, France | Earthquake | Churches thrown down. Mallet says 1382 |
M | 1383 |
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| England | Fogs | 'Foetid fogs' spoiled fruit. Many died |
G | 1383 | August |
| Lesbos, Greece | Earthquake | All buildings fell. 500 k. |
M | 1387 |
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| Europe | Hot summer | Rhine waded at Cologne |
G | 1389 |
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| Hekla, Iceland | Volcano | Ash & lava flow |
M | 1390 | June |
| England | Hot summer | Intense heat till Sept.. Plague |
A | 1391 | May | 23 | China | Two comets |
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M | 1392 |
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| France | Drought | Ponds & rivers dry. Cattle died |
G | 1394 | March | 22 | Europe | Earthquake | Switzerland, France, Germany Mountains shook to summits |
M | 1395 | November |
| England | Aurora? | 'Thing in the likeness of fire' at night Seen most of winter |
G | 1395 | December | 18 | Valencia, Spain | Earthquake | Many buildings fell. Many shocks |
M | 1399 | July | 22 | Bologna, Italy | Aurora | 'Very great redness' in air |