Data from these years was extremely unreliable, so there were many more typhoons that did not hit land and were not detected by ships.
On July 27, a typhoon struck southwestern China near Shantou, killing an estimated 100,000 people.
[4] In September, a typhoon struck the Japanese island of Honshu, killing 3,000 people and leaving US$10 million in damage.
On October, moving east-northeastwards from the South China Sea, a small but severe typhoon impacted the Philippines.
In late April, a typhoon moved across the Sulu Archipelago in the southern Philippines, killing 147 people.
A typhoon which made landfall in Japan in late September was reported as causing several hundred casualties and destroying around 75,000 houses.