1737 Calcutta cyclone

Most deaths resulted from the storm surge and happened on the sea: many ships sank in the Bay of Bengal and an unknown number of livestock and wild animals were killed from the effects of the cyclone.

[1] The storm then began to slow down before turning north-northeastwards, making landfall over the Ganges River Delta, just south of Calcutta.

[2] It slowed down while crossing the West Bengal, entering modern-day Bangladesh on or by 13 October before being last noted that day, far to the north of Dacca.

[1] The cyclone is regarded as one of India's worst natural disasters since reliable statistics began to be recorded.

[3] In his official report, Thomas Joshua Moore, the British East India Company duties collector, said that almost all the thatched buildings had been destroyed by the storm and flood.

[3] Houses near or on the harbor were destroyed and the local St. Anne's Church sustained substantial damage and subsequently collapsed.

[1] Although there would appear to be little evidence for the widely reported figure of 300,000 deaths or for an earthquake at all, this number shows up recurrently in popular literature.