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Since [[1495]], the [[island]]s of the [[Caribbean]] have experienced ample [[hurricane]] activity; either being directly hit or significantly brushed.

==List of Caribbean hurricanes==
The following is a '''history of hurricane activity in the Caribbean''':

*[[1495]] - [[Christopher Columbus]] encounters a hurricane near [[Hispaniola]]. He reported that “Nothing but the service of [[God]] or the [[Monarchy]]” would he permit himself exposure to such a storm again.
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*[[July 23]], [[August 21]], [[1812]] - Two hurricanes greatly impact Puerto Rico one after the other.  Severe damage occurs.  Much flooding.
*[[July 23]], [[1813]] - Hurricane crosses Puerto Rico.
*[[July 22]]-[[July 23|23]], [[1814]] - Hurricane affects Puerto Rico.
*[[1816]] - a severe hurricane slams into Puerto Rico.  Exact date unknown.
*[[September 22]], [[1818]] - Hurricane severely impacts Puerto Rico.
*[[September 22]], [[1819]] - a destructive hurricane hits
  the Virgin Islands and causes severe damage in Puerto Rico.
*[[July 26]]-[[July 27|27]], [[1825]] - Hurricane Santa Ana roars through the Caribbean.  Puerto Rico is devastated with pounding winds. A very violent and very destructive storm.
*[[August 18]]-[[August 19|19]], [[1827]] - Very destructive hurricane crosses Puerto Rico in a SE to NW direction.
*[[August 28]], [[1827]]- Hurricane affected Virgin Islands severely, especially St. Thomas.
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ated farmlands at embarrassingly-low prices.  This hurricane triggered a re-gentrification of the native populations to plantations in Hawaii and sweatshops in New York.  Disease and poverty became rampant.  Puerto Ricans, who once owned 93% of all arable land, now lost it to the absentee-owned sugar corporations who would hire the same destitute Puerto Ricans to work for very low wages on lands that once belonged to them.  This was a major shifting political event in the U.S. takeover of the once-Spanish col(contracted; show full)
*[[October 1]], [[1908]] - 80 mph winds from the SSE
*[[November 12]]-[[November 13|13]], [[1909]] - Tropical storm passed off northwestern corner of Puerto Rico in a WSW to ENE direction.
*[[August 24]]-[[August 25|25]], [[1910]] - Tropical storm passed off south coast of Puerto Rico in an E to W direction.
*[[September 6]]-[[September 7|7]], [[1910]] - Hurricane skirted south coast of Puerto Rico in an E to W direction.
*[[August 10]]-[[August 12|12]], [[1915]] - Hurricane skirted south coasts of St.
  Croix , U.S.V.I. and Puerto Rico in an E to W direction.
*[[July 12]]-[[July 14|14]], [[1916]] - Tropical storm passed through Virgin Islands in a SE to NW direction.
*[[1919]] - Hurricane strikes [[Cuba]] killing 600-900 before dissipating after hitting [[Texas]]
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[[Category:Lists of tropical cyclones|Caribbean]]


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