Climate & Environment
1,597 sourced entries filed under climate & environment, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.
By century
- Climate & Environment in the 5th century BC — 12 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 1st century — 18 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 2nd century — 17 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 3rd century — 9 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 4th century — 17 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 5th century — 15 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 6th century — 31 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 7th century — 18 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 8th century — 24 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 9th century — 21 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 10th century — 17 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 11th century — 21 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 12th century — 25 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 13th century — 24 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 14th century — 31 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 15th century — 31 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 16th century — 48 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 17th century — 101 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 18th century — 106 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 19th century — 176 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 20th century — 549 entries
- Climate & Environment in the 21st century — 286 entries
A line from each of the last few centuries
- 1543March 18 – As flooding of the Mississippi continues De la Vega notes that today "while the Spaniards... were making a procession in honor of Our Redeemer's entrance into Jerusalem, the river entered the gates of the little village of Aminoya in the wildness and fury of its flood, and two days later on we could not pass through the streets except in canoes."source
- 1666August 2 (July 23 Julian calendar) – A hurricane sweeps through the Caribbean Sea near Guadeloupe five days after Barbados colonial Governor Francis Willoughby led a force of two Royal Navy frigates, 12 commandeered vessels and over 1,000 men in a battle against French colonies during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. Willoughby and most of his crew die in the sinking of his flagship, HMS Hopesource
- 1752November 3 – A hurricane destroys the Spanish settlement on Florida's Santa Rosa Island, leaving only two buildings standing; the remaining residents decide to move from the barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico and to start a settlement on the nearby mainland and construct the Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola, which later forms the nucleus of the city of Pensacola, Florida.source
- 1861October 26 – The Pony Express American transcontinental mail service announces its closure.source
- 1963March 17 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali, killing approximately 1,500.source
- 2018May 3 – The 2018 lower Puna eruption causes destruction of structures and forces thousands of residents of Hawaii to evacuate as lava floods the land.source