- — North America:
The Norse settlements vanish
A wedding at Hvalsey Church in 1408 is the last dated record of Norse Greenland; the Eastern Settlement was abandoned within decades, the colony's disappearance still debated and linked to the Little Ice Age.
Era: Erik the Red and the Norse Colony
Sources: Greenland: History · Encyclopædia Britannica, Kujataa Greenland: Norse and Inuit Farming at the Edge of the Ice Cap · UNESCO World Heritage Centre
- — Europe:
St. Elizabeth's flood
A storm surge breaks the dikes of the Grote Hollandse Waard, drowning villages and thousands of people and creating the Biesbosch wetlands.
Era: Burgundian and Habsburg Rule
Sources: St. Elizabeth's flood · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rijksmuseum collection and the Dutch Golden Age · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- — Africa:
Decline and abandonment
Great Zimbabwe was abandoned, probably owing to resource exhaustion and shifting trade routes, as the centre of power moved north toward the Zambezi and successor states.
Era: Great Zimbabwe and the gold trade
Sources: Great Zimbabwe · Encyclopaedia Britannica, Great Zimbabwe · Wikipedia, Zimbabwe: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catastrophe in the 15th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 15th century — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 1408 to 1450. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 1408
- Latest
- 1450
- Africa
- 1
- Europe
- 1
- North America
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.