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In 1992, China approves the construction of the Three Gorges dam. It would be completed in 2008.

The flood kills more than 2,200 people. In 1889 this was the greatest loss of civilian life in US history.

More than a million people lose their lives as eleven towns and countless villages along the river are inundated.

The completion of this infrastructure leads to lasting controversy over the severe deterioration in the flow of the Ganges and the decay of the river as an inland waterway.

A severe famine hits the Deccan region in India from 1630–1632.

The Erie Canal was the first transportation system between the eastern seaboard and the western interior of the United States that did not require portage.

The greatest flood on the Red River in recorded history destroys most fur trading posts in Manitoba, Canada.

The fire ranks among the three largest forest fires ever recorded in North America.