On 16 February 1962, the North Sea flood of that year caused the Elbe to rise to an all-time high, inundating one-fifth of Hamburg and killing more than 300 people.

The following year he conquered the Mattiaci, while defeating the Marcomanni and the Cherusci, defeating the latter near the Elbe.

The world's first radio distress signal was transmitted by the East Goodwin lightvessel's radio operator on 17 March 1899, after the merchant vessel Elbe ran aground on the Goodwins, while on 30 April that year, the East Goodwin vessel transmitted a distress signal on its own behalf, when the SS R. F. Matthews rammed it in a dense fog.

The Elbe river Saxon Paddle Steamer Fleet in Dresden ( known as " White Fleet "), Germany, is the oldest and biggest in the world, with around 700, 000 passengers per year.

* " Die Maste der neuen 380-kV-Hochspannungsfreileitung über die Elbe " NWK special edition of " Der Stahlbau ", 48th year, issues 11 and 12, pp. 321 to 326, pp. 360 to 366, authors: Friedrich Kießling, Hans Dieter Sperl and Friedrich Wagemann

In the same year the overhead line traversing of the Strait of Messina went into service in Italy, whose pylons served the Elbe crossing 1.

The Elbhangfest is a street festival held in Dresden, Germany on the last weekend of June each year since 1990, focusing on the unique culture and built landscape of the hillsides on the banks of the Elbe river.

In response, the Stodorani revolted against German overlordship and chased the Germans across the Elbe, but Gero was able to reverse this before Otto's arrival in Magdeburg later in the year.

`` Whereas, a Bridge over Merrimack River, from the Land of Hon'ble Jonathan Greenleaf, Esquire, in Newbery, to Deer Island, and from said Island to Salisbury, would be of very extensive utility, by affording a safe Conveyance to Carriages, Teams and Travellers at all seasons of the year, and at all Times of Tide.

Average precipitation ranges from per year in the lower Araks River valley to at the highest altitudes.

At the end of this year and early in 895 ( or 896 ), the Danes drew their ships up the River Thames and River Lea and fortified themselves twenty miles ( 32 km ) north of London.

The original Yankee Stadium opened in 1923 on 161st Street and River Avenue, a year that saw the Yankeees bring home their first of 27 World Series Championships.

The arch of the Friedensbrücke, which was built in the same year, has the span of and crosses the valley of the Syrabach River.

For the following year the Duke proposed a campaign along the valley of the River Moselle to carry the war deep into France.

From the Yellow River, over 1. 6 billion tons of sediment flows into the ocean each year.

:" The master ... came to the region of Pogesania, to that island which is in the middle of the Elbing river, in that place where the Elbing enters the Vistula Lagoon, and built there a fort, which he called by the name of the Elbing River, in the year of the incarnation of the Lord, 1237.

The Spanish expeditions to the Pacific Northwest, with the 1791 Francisco de Eliza expedition preceding Vancouver by a year, had also missed the Fraser River although they knew from its muddy plume that there was a major river located nearby.

Riverfront Park, on the banks of the Missouri River on the north edge of downtown, holds annual Fourth of July celebrations and other festivals during the year.

At 7: 15 p. m. on 1 May each year, the Kettle Bridge Clogs morris dancing side dance across Barming Bridge ( otherwise known as the Kettle Bridge ), which spans the River Medway near Maidstone, to mark the official start of their morris dancing season.

The Niger River is unsuitable for river transport of any large scale, as it lacks depth for most of the year, and is broken by rapids at many spots.

Port Harcourt, a transshipment port located 66 kilometers from the Gulf of Guinea along the Bonny River in the Niger Delta, handles about 815, 000 tons of cargo each year and also has a railway connection.

A year later Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, sailing south and eastward from upper Central America, explored Bocas del Toro, Veragua, the Chagres River and Porto Belo ( Beautiful Port ) which he named.

It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated ; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great India-rubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni ; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira River.

In the year 2009 the water board will initiate an Integrated River Basin Management Plan in compliance with the European Union ( EU ) Water Framework Directive, 2000 / 60 / EC.

In 2009, following a 10 year systematic search, scientists reported the first natural quasicrystal, a mineral found in the Khatyrka River in eastern Russia.

River cargo and passenger traffic have varied from year to year, depending in large part on the availability and capacity of transport vessels.

* Starting in the year 309 BC, the later Chinese historian Sima Qian ( 145 BC – 90 BC ) wrote that the Qin-employed engineer Bi Ling of the newly conquered State of Shu in Sichuan had the shoulder of a mountain cut through, making the ' Separated Hill ' that abated the Mo River, and excavated two canals in the plain of Chengdu.

* Establishment of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania triggers Cresap's War – a nine year long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute – the conflict mainly centered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either banks of the Susquehanna River.

He was defeated and killed around the year 616 in battle at the River Idle by Raedwald of East Anglia, who installed Edwin, the son of Aella, a former king of Deira, as king.

For example it was believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of the tears of sorrow which Isis wept for Osiris.

The Santa Catarina River — dry most of the year on the surface but with flowing underground water — bisects Monterrey from East to West, thus separating the city into north and south halves.

From Cyprus they went to the port of Antioch in Syria, and thence traveled for a year to the Khan's court, going ten leagues ( 55. 56 kilometers ) per day.

In recent years, the Port Authority has established it as one of the most important ports in Spain for cruises, with 72 calls to port made by cruise ships in 2007 bringing some 80, 000 passengers and 30, 000 crew to the city each year.

It also has changes in the cartridge port address lines to allow for the Atari 2600 adapter released that year.

Fifteen percent of all arrivals in Greece come through the city of Heraklion ( port and airport ), while charter journeys to Heraklion last year made up 20 % of all charter flights in Greece.

The port would handle 2 million containers per year, while as of 2007, there has been no official announcement of a project not universally welcomed due to its environmental, economic and cultural impact.

Netscape's competitor, Microsoft, released Internet Explorer 3. 0 later the same year with a port of JavaScript called JScript.

The port loads around 2, 000 tonnes of Antarctic cargo a year for the Australian research vessel Aurora Australis.

Major expansion of this port is also taking place, with the completion of a new complex just last year, the port is expanding rapidly.

Cure was succeeded a year later by Emmanuel Anquetil who tried to gain the support of the port workers.

Nigeria ’ s principal container port is the port of Lagos, which handles about 5. 75 million tons of cargo each year.

That same year saw the Lombard duke Faroald II of Spoleto, capture Classis, the port of Ravenna.

Virtually all of the lengthy northern coast is well above the Arctic Circle ; except for the port of Murmansk — which receives currents that are somewhat warmer than would be expected at that latitude, due to the effects of the Gulf Stream — that coast is locked in ice much of the year.

The Port of Singapore, run by the port operators PSA International ( formerly the Port of Singapore Authority ) and Jurong Port, is the world's busiest in terms of shipping tonnage handled 1. 04 billion gross tons were handled in the year 2004, crossing the one billion mark for the first time in Singapore's maritime history.

Singapore also emerged as the top port in terms of cargo tonnage handled with 393 million tonnes of cargo in the same year, beating the Port of Rotterdam for the first time in the process.

During the early 1970s, port traffic averaged about 3 million tons a year, compared with an overall capacity of about 3. 8 million tons.

Once work resumed, however, Sawakin port opened in January 1991, and was capable of handling an estimated 1. 5 million tons of cargo a year.

In the 1570s close to 20, 000 slaves a year were being sold in the Crimean port of Kaffa.

Under Omani Arabs Zanzibar became East Africa's main slave port, with as many as 50, 000 enslaved Africans passing through every year during the 19th century.

Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade — Acapulco — shipped out 150, 000 to 345, 000 kg ( 4 to 9 million taels ) of silver annually from this year to 1602.

* From this year until 1650, sixteen million kilograms of silver and 185, 000 kilograms of gold will enter the port of Seville.

* Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague appears suddenly in the Egyptian port of Pelusium, spreading to Alexandria and, the following year, to Constantinople.

Molde was never a whaling port ; the image is merely a representation of the once-held belief that whales were chasing ( and not following ) the schools of fish into the fjords at certain times of the year.