Within four days, two-thirds of the city is destroyed and nearly one-hundred thousand people are homeless. Only nine deaths are recorded, but the real toll is likely much higher.
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The Act is passed by the British colonial government in 1894 to facilitate the acquisition of land from certain Indian peasants in exchange for cash.
Economist William Stanley Jevons explores the implications of Britain’s dependency on coal.
Franklin makes his second expedition to the Canadian Arctic in the hope of finding a shorter sea route from Europe to Asia.
More than a million people lose their lives as eleven towns and countless villages along the river are inundated.
During the three “great hunger years,” 270,000 people die.
The United Nations declares basic development goals to be met by 2015.
In light of the dramatic decline in whale populations, whaling nations found the International Whaling Commission (IWC).
Approximately 12,000 people die as a result of the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom.
Egon Glesinger publishes his study on the global importance of wood as a raw material.