Events
- Storegga Slides, caused a tsunami c. 6100 BC
- Bristol Channel floods, 1607 was caused by a tsunami
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake caused a tsunami that hit Cornwall.
- Colchester earthquake, 1884
- 2002 Dudley earthquake
- 2008 Lincolnshire earthquake
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.”
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“Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)