Acqua Alta in Venice
1687
An unusually high flood, the worst in living memory, submerged Piazza San Marco and the Rialto for days. Merchants rowed gondolas through their own warehouses. The event was the most severe acqua alta before the famous flood of 1966 and a reminder that the lagoon city was already adjusting to a world that would one day drown it.
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Also in 1687 (3 other events on record)
- Newton Publishes Principia · Europe · Science
- Battle of Mohacs · Europe · War
- Parthenon Shelled · Europe · War
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.