List of natural disasters in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of natural disasters in the United Kingdom.

• 1348 Black Death
• 1485 Sweating sickness epidemic
• 1507 Sweating sickness epidemic
• 1517 Sweating sickness epidemic
• 1528 Sweating sickness epidemic
• 1551 Sweating sickness epidemic
• 1606 Bristol Channel floods, 20 January 1606 (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
• 1796 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
• 1832 Cholera Epidemic
• 1836 Avalanche in Lewes, the only major avalanche recorded in England.
• 1846–1849 Potato famine, Ireland
• 1864 Great Sheffield flood
• 1881 The Eyemouth Disaster, storm, Scotland [1]
• 1884 Colchester earthquake, Essex
• 1918–1919 Flu epidemic
• 1952 Lynmouth flooding, Devon
• 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
• 2004 Boscastle flooding, Cornwall
• 2005 Carlisle flood, 8 January 2005
• 2005 Birmingham, UK Tornado, 28 July 2005

See also

• List of United Kingdom disasters by death toll
• UK topics
• Climate of the United Kingdom
• Geology of the United Kingdom
• List of disasters