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Year Locale Event Social Effects Source
1738-39 France Famine worsens Many French will die over next 2 yrs Trager
1737 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1735 New England Scarlet fever Disease described by Wm Douglas Trager
1734 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1732 Japan famine Rain/Grasshoppers/worst of 130 famines Trager
1731 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1729 England Death rates descend Population pressures rise/Modest Proposal Trager
1728 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1726 France Warm/dry summer 1726-28 good vintages Ladurie
1725-86 China Relatively dry period Tree ring records Feng et al.
1725-1750 France Punched Paper Rolls evolve Bouchon/de Vaucanson/Jacquard Automation Burke
1725 France Famine Riots after bread prices rise Trager
1725 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1723 New Orleans, Louisiana Hurricane Killed > 2 dozen people, and leveled 30 buildings Nash
1723 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1722 Volga delta/Astrakhan Ergotism Horses/men die from tainted grains/hay Trager
1720-1840 China Warm interval begins Wetter, less freezing/dust/more river floods Ý
1720 Marseilles Black Plague Last major European outbreak; 50,000 die Trager
1720 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1718 Picardy Picards Sweats Epidemic/deadly Influenza Trager
1718 France Hottest/Driest Summers 1717-18, wheat/wine good Ladurie
1718 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1715-16 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1715 Sun More spots end Maunder minimum Ladurie
1713-1714 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1711 Austria/Brandenburg Black Death 515,000 die Trager
1711 North Atlantic August, Hurricane English Armada, en route to attack Quebec, scattered; 8 transports with 1,342 soldiers lost Nash
1711 France/Germany/UK cold springs/summers 1711-17 poor vintages Ladurie
1709 Prussia Black Death 300,000 die Trager
1708-09 France/Europe Coldest winter in memory Louis IV asks terms from Marlborough Trager
1707-09 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1705 Europe Famine This episode continues for years Trager
1703 England November 27, Hurricane All major ports were devastated, andThames River, inundated by huge waves ~ 300 ships & >30,000 sailors were lost at sea Nash/Defoe
1703-04 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1702 New York Yellow fever 570 die Trager
1701 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1698 Swedish coast Bohuslan herring fails End of 45 year abundance period Lindquist
1698 Iceland Glacial expand Destroyed steads/towns Ladurie
1697 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1695 Abrekke Norway Glacial expand Destroys pastures/etc. Ladurie
1694 France Epidemics strike poor Hunger and exhaustion cause vulnerability Trager
1694-95 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1692 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1687-88 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1686

London, England

near End of Medieval Astrology/Total causality

"Astro-meteorologica; or aphorisms and discourses of the bodies coelestial, their natures and influences."

Printed by J. Rawlins for O. Blagrave.

John Goad's Goad:

"It grieveth me to see learned men to speak of pressures of aire and therebye solve problems concerning the ocean's ebb and flow."

John Goad, Natural Philosopher
1683 England Coldest Winter/Smallpox Thames/sea to two miles freezes Ladurie
1683-84 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1682 Halle/Magdeburg Black Death Tens of thousands die Trager
1681 Vienna Black Death 83,000 die Trager
1681 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn
1680 Europe Economic Disarray Revolts/famine/disease epidemics Trager
1679 Vienna Black Death 76,000 die Trager
1678 Alps/Verangt Valley Lake/block Floods, 1678-80 Ladurie
1674 Malta Black Death 11,000 die Trager
1674 Japan Terrible Famine Ý Trager
1673 Europe/England Black Death declines Brown rat replaces flea ridden Black rat Trager
1671-72 Europe/Naples Black Death 60,000 at Lyons/400 hundred thousands Naples Trager/Nash
1671 ENSO Warm Event Records/Proxies of El Niño Ý Quinn


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