Magnitude 8.5 earthquake in Guadeloupe: Pointe-A-Pitre · about 5,000 deaths
Natural disaster
1843 Pointe-A-Pitre earthquake
Magnitude 8.5 earthquake in Guadeloupe: Pointe-A-Pitre · about 5,000 deaths
- 8 February 1843
Meanwhile, elsewhere
- 1861 – 1865American Civil WarNorth America
- 17th century – 19th centuryAge of EnlightenmentEurope
- 1868 – 1889Meiji RestorationEast Asia
- 1853 – 1856Crimean WarEurope
- 1857 – 1858Indian Mutiny of 1857South Asia
- 1845 – 1852Great Irish FamineEurope
- 1846 – 1848Mexican-American WarMesoamerica and the Caribbean
- 1851 – 1864Taiping RebellionEast Asia