This was the "flood of the millennium" that swept across Europe 700 years ago and buried half the continent.

Historical records indicate that the year 1342 marked the most extreme flooding period in Europe over the last 700 years, characterized not by a single catastrophe, but by a continuous chain of sixteen major hydrological events spanning nearly two years.

These severe weather events heavily impacted the European continent, causing widespread devastation and leaving a significant historical record of environmental extremity during the medieval period.