23 January 1556
Disaster
The Worlds worst ever disaster, 830,000 perish. About 830,000 perish after earthquakes cause the Yellow & Wei rivers to flood
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Yellow River in China. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The Worlds worst ever disaster, 830,000 perish. About 830,000 perish after earthquakes cause the Yellow & Wei rivers to flood
Provenance
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