Great Wind blows down English forests
1361
A continent-wide storm flattened woodlands across southeastern England, blew church spires down, and drove Channel shipping onto lee shores. The storm uprooted ancient oaks by the thousands, reshaping the landscape of the Home Counties. It was one of several extreme weather events of the little ice age's onset, stripping an already depopulated country of timber and patience.
In context
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.