Historical Disasters and Tragedies

Historical Disasters and Tragedies

An educational reference covering the details of historical natural and man-made disasters, tragedies, and their victims.

This work-in-progress includes historical disasters and tragedies sorted chronologically and geographically. Each event will be a separate subpage, and include any details related to the event, presented in an educational and historically instructive manner. If possible, events will have associated details about victims, either directly in the page about the event, or, if there were numerous victims, in a separate subpage. Victims lists should either be placed on Wikisource (in the case of public domain, original source lists), in the actual event page (if they are sufficiently short), or on a separate subpage of the event. The latter two cases correspond to victims lists that have been created by the users, compiled from various other sources; in these cases, it is crucial that all details are properly referenced.

Contents

The General Slocum steamship disaster of 1904 killed over 1,000 people in New York's East River.

1. Introduction
2. Events sorted by type
   1. Natural events
      1. Avalanche
      2. Cold
      3. Disease
      4. Drought
      5. Earthquake
      6. Fire
      7. Famine
      8. Flood
      9. Hail
      10. Heat
      11. Hurricane
      12. Impact event
      13. Limnic eruption
      14. Landslide
      15. Mudslide
      16. Lahar
      17. Sink hole
      18. Solar flare
      19. Freak Wave
      20. Storm surge
      21. Thunderstorm
      22. Tornado
      23. Tsunami
      24. Volcanic eruption
      25. Waterspout
      26. Winter storm
   2. Man-made events
      1. Arson
      2. CBRNs
      3. Civil disorder
      4. Crime
      5. Data loss
      6. Dam failure
      7. Hazardous materials
      8. Processing interruption
      9. Liquidity shortage
      10. Nuclear blast
      11. Power outage
      12. Public relations crisis
      13. Radiation Contamination
      14. Telecommunication outage
      15. Terrorism
      16. War

1. Events sorted chronologically
   1. 21st century
   2. 20th century
   3. 19th century
   4. 18th century
   5. 17th century
   6. 16th century
   7. 15th century
   8. 14th century
2. Events sorted geographically
   1. Continents
      1. Africa
      2. Antarctica
      3. Asia
      4. Europe
      5. North America
      6. Central America
      7. South America
   2. Bodies of water
      1. Oceans
         1. Atlantic Ocean
         2. Arctic Ocean
         3. Indian Ocean
         4. Pacific Ocean
         5. Southern Ocean
      2. Seas
         1. Black Sea
         2. Mediterranean Sea
         3. Red Sea
         4. South China Sea
         5. Saragasco Sea