Severe Drought in 1709 1718 1725 and 1734 Dried Up The Danube And The Seine

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1. Ivan says:

   August 8, 2011 at 6:31 am

   DroughtFlood in Hungary (1860s)
   “THE HUNGARIAN FAMINE.
   The history of the Hungarian famine is some what extraordinary. It began with excessive rain and was followed by excessive drought In 1862 the rains were so unusual that die Danube overflowed its banks, and became a lake 100 miles wide, everything being destroyed by the vast and desolate expanse of water. … And now another evil befel them. As if the rain for two years had all fallen in 1862, the year 1863 was one of unparalleled drought. Nothing could grow; and as the drought not only affected the districts overflowed the year before by the Danube, but was equally fatal to the crops over the whole country, the losses of the second year were greater than those of the first…”
   ~10 March 1864
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/31834140?

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2. Ivan says:

   August 8, 2011 at 10:14 am

   “It will be recorded as a singular fact, that in the summer of the year 1826, so severe was the drought, that public prayers were offered up in most of the churches and chapels of England, for rain, in the midst of the hay harvest.”
   ~30 Jan 1827
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2187541?

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3. Ivan says:

   August 8, 2011 at 10:19 am

   “BAD NEWS FOR THE BLOWERS OF CLOUDS.-Owing to the great drought it America this summer, the tobacco plants have been so much injured that the supplies next year will be very small. This has had the effect of raising the price of leaf tobacco above 35 per cent., with every prospect of a still further rise.”
   ~11 March 1839
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/32163186?

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4. Ivan says:

   August 8, 2011 at 10:25 am

   “In consequence of the fall of the Seine, from the long absence of rain, there has been discovered, at a place called Le Port a I’Anglaise, near the bridge of Charenton. a square stone, on which is an inscription, signifying that on the 25th August, 1767, the river retired as low as that spot and hence it may be inferred that it has not for eighty years sunk so low as it now is.”
   ~3 Feb 1847
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/36251226?

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5. Ivan says:

   August 8, 2011 at 10:52 am

   2009:
   An unprecedented drought has thrown the river system into decline, according to the guardian for the river. “We’ve had big droughts before and big floods before, but what we didn’t have was climate change,”
   Y-A-W-N!
   h.t.t.p://www.smh.com.au/environment/water-issues/murray-flows-lowest-in-a-century-20090407-9zld.html
   1883.
   The Darling [River] was a chain of waterholes this year.”
   http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/52499268?

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6. Andy WeissDC says:

   August 8, 2011 at 12:25 pm

   Those were all fables passed down prior to the dawn of time, which took place around 1950.

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     August 8, 2011 at 12:32 pm

     In certain scientific circles the “Dawn of Time” was 1979!
     There is a consensus that they are uncertain when the dawn of time actually was so the science is settled and requires further research! 😉

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