Industrial Age · Southeast Asia · Disaster

1883

Krakatoa Erupts

August 27, 1883

The volcanic island of Krakatoa in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra exploded with the force of thirteen thousand Hiroshima bombs. The sound was heard three thousand miles away in Rodrigues Island. Tsunamis killed thirty-six thousand people. Sunsets turned blood-red around the world for a year. The telegraph carried the news in hours - the first global disaster.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: April 29, 1859: French Enter Indochina
After: 1886: Third Anglo-Burmese War

Before and after in Disaster

Before: September 18, 1873: Panic of 1873
After: August 31, 1888: Jack the Ripper

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Krakatoa