Disasters & Accidents
3,511 sourced entries filed under disasters & accidents, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.
By century
- Disasters & Accidents in the 1st century — 9 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 5th century — 12 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 11th century — 8 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 12th century — 21 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 13th century — 8 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 14th century — 17 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 15th century — 19 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 16th century — 52 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 17th century — 166 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 18th century — 230 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 19th century — 712 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 20th century — 1,798 entries
- Disasters & Accidents in the 21st century — 459 entries
A line from each of the last few centuries
- 1562October 19 – La Herradura naval disaster: Twenty-five ships sink in a storm off of the coast of Spain in the bay of La Herradura, where 28 ships had been anchored to weather the elements. At least 3,000 people are killed, and perhaps as many as 5,000, while another 2,000 survivors, mostly slaves on the galleys, are able to escape to shore.source
- 1665Great Fire of Rolvenden, Kent.Englandsource
- 1744July 8 – The Royal Navy privateer Somerset capsizes and sinks in the Bristol Channel, killing 86 of the 97 crew.source
- 1865April 27 – The steamboat Sultana, carrying 2,300 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1,800, mostly Union survivors of the Andersonville Prison.source
- 1958February 5 – 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision: A U.S. B-47 bomber jettisons a hydrogen bomb into Wassaw Sound off Tybee Island, Georgia; it is never recovered.source
- 2013April 29 - A powerful explosion badly damaged an office building in the center of Prague, injuring up to 43 people.Czech Republicsource