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| Fatalities=200,000 total | | Fatalities=200,000 total | ||
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| Hurricane season= [[Pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1876 North Indian Ocean cyclone season]] | | Hurricane season= [[Pre-1890 North Indian Ocean cyclone seasons|1876 North Indian Ocean cyclone season]] | ||
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The '''Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876''' (29 October – 1 November 1876) was one of the deadliest [[tropical cyclone]]s in history. It hit the coast of [[Backerganj]] (near [[Meghna]] [[estuary]]) in present-day [[Barisal]], [[Bangladesh]], killing about 200,000 people, half of whom were drowned by the [[storm surge]], while the rest died from the subsequent famine.<ref name="smrc">SMRC-No.1 – The impact of tropical cyclones on the coastal regions of SAARC countries and their influence in the region, SAARC Meteorological Research Center (SMRC),1998.</ref><ref name="bpedia">{{cite web|last1=Chowdhury|first1=Masud Hasan|title=Cyclone|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Cyclone|website=[[Banglapedia]]|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|access-date=6 August 2015}}</ref> | The '''Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876''' (29 October – 1 November 1876) was one of the deadliest [[tropical cyclone]]s in history. It hit the coast of [[Backerganj]], [[British Raj]] (near [[Meghna]] [[estuary]]) in present-day [[Barisal]], [[Bangladesh]], killing about 200,000 people, half of whom were drowned by the [[storm surge]], while the rest died from the subsequent famine.<ref name="smrc">SMRC-No.1 – The impact of tropical cyclones on the coastal regions of SAARC countries and their influence in the region, SAARC Meteorological Research Center (SMRC),1998.</ref><ref name="bpedia">{{cite web|last1=Chowdhury|first1=Masud Hasan|title=Cyclone|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Cyclone|website=[[Banglapedia]]|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]|access-date=6 August 2015}}</ref> | ||
==Meteorological history== | ==Meteorological history== | ||