Toghon Temur orders Yellow River re-channeling
1351
The Yuan court mobilized hundreds of thousands of peasant laborers to restore a northern course for the river after catastrophic flooding that had devastated Shandong and Henan. Conditions were brutal, workers dying by the thousands. Among the corvee workers, secret societies circulated prophecies of a coming Maitreya Buddha and a stone-eyed Buddhist icon that would signal rebellion.
In context
Also in 1351 (3 other events on record)
- Statute of Provisors curbs papal taxation · Europe · Religion
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Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Disaster
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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