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10,000[1]
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1,000 dead | None/Unknown |
Black Monday took place on Easter Monday (1360) during the Hundred Years' War (1337–1360), when a freak hail storm struck and killed an estimated 1,000[2] English soldiers. The storm was so devastating that it caused more English casualties than any of the previous battles of the war.[3]
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