Earthquake destroys Friuli
January 1348
On a winter morning a massive quake leveled towns from Villach to Cividale, toppling church towers and burying entire neighborhoods. Aftershocks continued for weeks. Already the plague was creeping up the Adriatic. To survivors it seemed God had set the four horsemen loose at once on the eastern Alps. Tens of thousands died.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.