Yellow River shifts course catastrophically
1345
The great river abandoned its northern channel and carved a new path to the sea south of the Shandong Peninsula, drowning thousands of villages and displacing millions of peasants. The Yuan court's attempt to redirect the river back using conscript labor would ignite the Red Turban rebellions that destroyed the dynasty.
In context
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.