Hurricane Strikes Hispaniola in 1495

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.
Horrenda & inaudita tempestas.
[Frankfurt : De Bry, 1594.]

Plate 11 from Part IV of the Grands Voyages, first published in 1594 with German or Latin text.

In June 1495, a hurricane struck the tiny Spanish settlement of Isabella, on the coast of Hispaniola. It was the first hurricane to be witnessed by Europeans in the New World.

This is the earliest known picture of a hurricane.

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