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This is a list of Natural Disaster s in the United Kingdom .

c.5000BC Tsunami struck east Scotland with 70 foot wave after landslip in Norway .

1348 Black Death

1485 Sweating Sickness Epidemic

1507 Sweating sickness epidemic

1517 Sweating sickness epidemic

1528 Sweating sickness epidemic

1551 Sweating sickness epidemic

1580 Dover Straits Earthquake Of 1580

1607 Bristol Channel Floods , 20 January 1607 (possible Tsunami )

1607 Lynmouth flooding, Devon

1638 The Great Thunderstorm , Widecombe-in-the-Moor , Devon

1665 Great Plague Of London

1703 The Great Storm Of 1703

1729 Tornado in Sussex - Bexhill-on-Sea to Linkhill

1740 Great Irish Famine (1740-1741)

1755 Tsunami struck Cornwall with 3 metre wave after Lisbon Earthquake

1776 Dover Straits Earthquake

1783 " Laki Haze " of sulphurous gas from eruption in Iceland poisons est.30,000 in UK, plus est.8,000 deaths in winter.

1796 Lynmouth flooding, Devon

1832 Cholera Epidemic

1836 Avalanche in Lewes , the only major avalanche recorded in England [http://archive.theargus.co.uk/2006/12/27/223771.html , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/south/series1/weird-weather.shtml , [http://www.999lewes.com/]

1846 – 1849 Great Irish Famine , Ireland

1881 Eyemouth Disaster , storm, Scotland

1884 Colchester Earthquake , Essex

1918 – 1919 Flu Epidemic

1931 Dogger Bank Earthquake

1947 Winter Of 1946-1947 blizzards and deep freezes followed by heavy spring flooding

1952 Lynmouth flooding, Devon [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1516880.stm , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/news_features/2002/lynmouth_flood.shtml

1952 Great Smog Of 1952 , London

1953 North Sea Flood Of 1953 , England

1987 The Great Storm Of 1987

1990 The Burns' Day Storm

2000 Severe flooding in many parts of the UK. Among the worst hits are York , Shrewsbury , Lewes and Uckfield {Link without Title} , {Link without Title} ,

[http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/nature/wtt/03.shtml

[http://www.eastsussex.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/00016FE4-50D0-4AD8-99BB-BB06D7BEEF22/0/lewesflood.pdf

2003 European Record Breaking Heatwave

2004 Boscastle Flooding , Cornwall

2005 Carlisle flood, 8 January 2005 [http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/regions/northwest/942672/?lang=_e

2007 Summer 2007 United Kingdom Floods affected many parts of the UK, especially the Sheffield area, Hull , Gloucestershire and Worcestershire .

SEE ALSO

List Of United Kingdom Disasters By Death Toll

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Climate Of The United Kingdom

Geology Of The United Kingdom

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