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
- 1881 Eyemouth Disaster, storm, Scotland
- 1884 Colchester earthquake, Essex
- 1918–1919 Flu epidemic
- 1931 1931 Dogger Bank earthquake
- 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
