St. Lucia's flood reshapes the Dutch coastline
1287
A catastrophic North Sea storm surge on December thirteenth broke through the dikes of Frisia and Holland, drowning an estimated fifty thousand people and enlarging the Zuiderzee into an inland sea. The disaster reshaped the geography of the Low Countries and accelerated Dutch hydraulic engineering that would define the nation.
In context
Also in 1287 (3 other events on record)
- Mongols sack Pagan · Southeast Asia · War
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- Pagan kingdom of Burma falls to Mongol invasion · Southeast Asia · War
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.