Atlantic hurricane seasons 1601–1700
The years 1601 to 1700 represented the hurricane seasons 1601–1700 . While data is not available for every storm that has occurred, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to provide data on hurricane occurrences. Each season was an ongoing event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean. Most tropical cyclones form between June and November.
Storms
year | place | date | Deaths | Damage / remarks |
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1600 | At sea Mexico | 12th September | 60 | nv |
1600 | At sea Mexico | September 26th | 150 to 250 | nv |
1601 | Veracruz , Mexico | nv | 1000 | nv |
1605 | Nicaragua | nv | 1300 | nv |
1605 | Haiti , Cuba | nv | nv | Three ships missing |
1609 | New England | 4th of August | 32 | A ship sank near Bermuda , this event inspired Shakespeare to his work Der Sturm . |
1615 | Mexico | August 30th | Ship crew drowned | A ship sunk |
1615 | Puerto Rico | 12th September | Some deaths | nv |
1616 | Puerto Rico | nv | Lots of deaths | nv |
1622 | Bahamas , Florida Keys | 5th September | 1090 | Two Spanish ships go missing |
1623 | Cuba | September | 150 to 250 | nv |
1626 | Puerto Rico | September 15th | 38 | nv |
1631 | Gulf of Mexico | October 21 | 300 | nv |
1634 | Cuba | 5th October | 40 | nv |
1635 | New England | August 24th | 46+ | Great colonial hurricane of 1635 |
1638 | St. Kitts | 5th of August | nv | Peter Minuit dies on the way back to Stockholm , Sweden |
1638 | South of puerto rico | October | nv | Two British ships missing; two survivors |
1640 | Cuba | September 11 | nv | |
1641 | Hispaniola , Florida | September 24th | Lots | 12+ ships missing |
1642 | Hispaniola , Florida | September | Lots | Twenty-two crews drowned |
1644 | West Cuba , Florida Keys | October | 1500 | nv |
1649 | Virginia | nv | nv | Crop damage (tobacco) |
1650 | St. Kitts | nv | 28 | From two hurricanes |
1652 | Leeward Islands | September 23rd | nv | Three ships and crew missing |
1653 | Barbados , St. Vincent | July 13th | Lots | A ship and crew went missing |
1656 | Guadeloupe | nv | nv | Every ship at anchor broke |
1657 | Guadeloupe , Bahamas | nv | nv | Two ships sunk |
1664 | Guadeloupe | October 22nd | nv | Massive crop damage; almost caused famine |
1666 | Martinique , Guadeloupe | August 14th and 15th | 2000 | Two ships missing |
1667 | St. Kitts , Virginia | September 1st to 6th | Many people | 10,000 houses destroyed, massive crop damage, large floods |
1669 | Nevis , Cuba , North Carolina | 17th to 23rd August | 182 | nv |
1669 | St. Kitts | September | nv | Twenty-five ships missing |
1670 | Jamaica | October 7th | nv | Driven the English navy ashore |
1673 | Puerto Rico | nv | Few | Smashed a ship, everyone came ashore safely |
1674 | Barbados | August 10 | 200 | nv |
1674 | St. Augustine , Florida | August 19th | nv | Similar continuation as above, floods, property and crop damage |
1675 | Barbados | September 10 | 200 | nv |
1680 | Martinique | 3rd August | Lots | 22 ships missing |
1680 | Dominican Republic | 15th of August | Lots | 25+ ships missing |
1681 | West caribbean | nv | "Considerable by drowning" | nv |
1683 | North Carolina , Connecticut | August 23 | nv | Huge floods |
1683 | Florida east coast | nv | 496 | nv |
1689 | Nevis | nv | Half the population of the island | nv |
1692 | Jamaica | nv | 100 | nv |
1693 | Central Atlantic States , New England | October 29th | nv | Created new inlets, floods |
1694 | Barbados | September 27th | 1000 | nv |
1695 | Florida Keys | 4th of October | nv | 1 ship destroyed |
1695 | Martinique | October | 600 | nv |
1696 | West cuba | nv | nv | Heavy floods, 1 ship missing |
1700 | Charleston , South Carolina | September 14th | 98 | nv |