Storm - EpiMedDat

For Storm, a total of 6 epidemic events are known so far. It is a natural event.

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Page	DateStart date of the disease.	SummarySummary of the disease event	OriginalOriginal text	TranslationEnglish translation of the text	ReferenceReference(s) to literature	Reference translationReference(s) to the translation
1259-05-00-St. Albans	May 1259 ^JL	Air corruption was followed by disease and bad weather and harvest.	Item in mayo [1259] fuit maxima aeris corruptio per totum mensem. Inde subsecute sunt multe infirmitates et mortalitas hominum. Arbores non fructificabant. Item mense Julio multa tonitrua et terribilia et fulgura cadentia. Item mense octobri ad festum sancti Dionisii per tres dies continuos et noctes horrid tempestas celum commouit et undas et multi naufragio perierunt	Moreover, in May 1259, there was severe air corruption throughout the entire month. As a result, many illnesses and deaths followed among people. The trees did not bear fruit. Additionally, in July, there were many terrifying thunderclaps and lightning strikes. Furthermore, in October, around the feast of Saint Denis, for three continuous days and nights, a dreadful storm stirred the sky and the waves, and many perished in shipwrecks.	Template:Chronicon S. Andreae in Antona Sempentrionalis (bis 1339) 1929, p. 101.	Translation by Martin Bauch
1323-08-05-Cairo	1323 ^JL	In the wake of a hot, black storm illnesses (amrāḍ) spread in Cairo in summer/autumn 723 AH (1323). For the period of a month, a number of people died. A similar storm had killed people in Damascus before, in Shaʿbān 723 AH (August 5 - September 2, 1323), and had made fruits wither and water run dry; Damascene wheat prices had subsequently gone up. In Cairo, the storm equally hampered grain crop growth, hence grain prices rose since little grain was available.			Al-Maqrīzī, Al-Sulūk 1997, vol. 3, p. 66.	Translation needed
1328-02-18-Prague	18 February 1328 ^JL	After lunar eclipse heavy storm for one month; high mortality and cattle plague in April, after that processions in Prague	Eodem anno in plenilunio mensis Marcii luna eclipsatur, ventus validissimus per hebdomadas quatuor continuatus hanc eclipsim subsequitur; multitudo hominum mense Aprili moritur, et in pluribus mundi partibus pestilencia pecorum oritur valde gravis. Porro Elizabeth, Bohemie regina, metu tante plage perterrita processiones cum reliquiis sanctorum universo clero Pragensi indicit et populo; quibus factis notabiliter cessavit quassacio et placatus factus est Dominus populo suo. Hac nece cessante gaudet populus velut ante.		Chronicon Aulae Regia 1301-1339 2, p. 288, lib. 2, cap. 20.	Translation needed
1348-10-00-Damascus	7 October 1348 ^JL	On October 7, 1348 the number of people who had died of plague and were prayed for at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus reached 150 or more; not included were inhabitants of the outskirts of the city and members of the protected religious minorities (ahl al-dhimma) whose bodies were not brought to the Umayyad Mosque. It was said that on many days, casualties in the outskirts of Damascus (ḥawāḍir al-balad) reached more than 1,000. On October 7, a dust storm reached Damascus; people prayed to God and ask for this to be the end of the plague; things only got worse afterwards, though. On Miʿrāj Night (October 21), not as many people as usual gathered in the Umayyad Mosque because so many people had died of plague and many more were occupied caring for the sick and the deceased. In the beginning of Shaʿbān 749 H (the month began on October 25), many people were infected with plague (fanāʾ), and often there would be a bad smell in the city.	... ...		Ibn Kathīr - Al-Bidāya wa-l-nihāya 1997-1999, vol. 18 (1998), pp. 507-508.	Translation needed
1464-00-00-Bologna	1464 ^JL	Very stormy and rainy year, the sun shone little in September as the moon was blue at night. There was severe fever, smallpox and seasickness	A dì 17 di dicembre, il lunedì, venne in Bologna gran neve. […] In somma quest’anno fu piovoso et tempestoso e nel tempo del raccolto vendevasi la corba del grano lire due, la spelta soldi 11, la fava soldi 20; fu dell’ uva assai. Il mese di settembre fu con molte maligne nebbie; il solo splendeva poco et era di color smorticcio, siccome è di notte la luna, che si mostrava azzura. Furono gran febbri, vaioli et mali di costa.		Ghirardacci 1915-16, p. 187	Translation needed
1495-00-00-Stockholm	1495 ^JL	Fire, storm, and plague hit Stockholm in 1495, killing up to 7,000 people and counting. The plague did not only affect the city but ravaged the whole Kingdom of Sweden	eeldh storm pestilencia och ryzer akth – laatha nw alla see thera makth – eeldin stormar mz storan heetta – stokholms män faa thz sörgeligha weetta – öffuer södhermalm och östan mwr – flygher eeldin som eeth wr – och mangha haffua thz sporth – huru thz bran fraa gramunka gränd och in tiil norra porth – vii tusendh och än flere – i stokholm aff pestilencia dogho och än meere – och saa fasth öffuer sweriges riike	fire, storm, pestilence and Russians act - now let everyone see their force - the fire storms with great heat- Stockholm's men get the sorrowful news – over Södermalm and the eastern wall - the fire flies like heavy wind – and many have it seen - how it burned from Gråmunka lane and into the northern port - seven thousand and even more - in Stockholm of pestilence died and even more - and so over the kingdom of Sweden	Gustaf Edvard Klemming: Svenska medeltidens rimkrönikor 3. Stockholm 1867–1868, p. 123. col. 3561–3571	Translation by Carina Damm

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