
The 18511855 Yellow River floods were a series of natural disasters along the
Yellow River
The Yellow River, also known as Huanghe, is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system on Earth, with an estimated length of and a Drainage basin, watershed of . Beginning in the Bayan H ...
in
China
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, culminating in the 1855 channel change event. Some data is missing from this period, especially 1854. but it seems that water levels were high for most of 1851-1855.
[Fei, J., Lai, ZP., He, HM. et al. ]Limnology
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It includes aspects of the biological, chemical, physical, and geological characteristics of fresh and saline, natural and man-made bodies of water. This includes the study of lakes, ...
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The Yellow River had flowed along various courses south of the
Shandong Peninsula since the
disastrous floods of 1194. These mid-19th century floods reversed that, shifting the river into a path north of Shandong once again and causing it to empty into the
Bohai Sea
The Bohai Sea ( zh, c=渤海, p=Bó Hǎi, l=Bo Sea) is a gulf/inland sea approximately in area on the east coast of Mainland China. It is the northwestern and innermost extension of the Yellow Sea, to which it connects via the Bohai Strait. It ...
near
Tianjin
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rather than the
Yellow Sea
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Names
It is one of four ...
on the
Jiangsu
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coast.
This natural disaster is thought to have been a major cause of the
Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, also known as the Taiping Civil War or the Taiping Revolution, was a civil war in China between the Qing dynasty and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The conflict lasted 14 years, from its outbreak in 1850 until the fall of ...
and
Nian Rebellion
The Nian Rebellion () was an insurrection against the Qing dynasty in northern China from 1851 to 1868, contemporaneously with the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) in southern China. The rebellion was suppressed, but the population and economic ...
.
See also
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Floods of the Yellow River
References
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