Yellow River bursts its banks in catastrophic flood
July 1034
Intense summer rains broke the fascine levees at Henglong, and the Yellow River abandoned its ancient course in a catastrophic shift that carved three new channels across the north China plain. The flood halved tax revenues from the northern provinces. Emperor Renzong mobilized over a hundred thousand laborers in a futile seven-year effort to force the river back.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.