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Disasters with highest death tolls

St. Marcellus Flood

Saturday Jan 16, 1362
Holy Roman Empire

Saint Marcellus' flood or Grote Mandrenke was a massive southwesterly Atlantic gale (also known as a European windstorm) which swept across the British Isles, the Netherlands, northern Germany, and Denmark (including Schleswig/Southern Jutland) around 16 January 1362, causing at minimum 25,000 deaths.


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