Yellow River catastrophically shifts course again
1048
Fourteen years after the first breach, the Yellow River burst its levees once more and carved an entirely new path to the sea, flooding vast tracts of the north China plain and displacing over a million people. The disaster devastated Song finances and provocation decades of political debate over whether to let the river run free or force it back into its old channel.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.