Public-record encyclopedia. Not legal advice. Not a how-to. Graphic detail is withheld. Wars belong in a separate atlas.
⚠️ Disasters
Sinking of the Titanic
1912 · Closed
On 14–15 April 1912 the White Star liner RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank, killing about 1,500 people and forcing the first SOLAS convention.
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Chernobyl disaster
1986 · Closed
On 26 April 1986 an explosion at reactor 4 of the Chernobyl plant in the Ukrainian SSR became the worst nuclear accident on the public record and rewrote international nuclear law.
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Sinking of MV Sewol
2014 · Convicted
On 16 April 2014 the ferry MV Sewol capsized in the Yellow Sea; 304 people died or remain missing, and South Korean courts later convicted the captain and crew.
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Bhopal disaster
1984 · Mixed outcome
On the night of 2–3 December 1984 a methyl isocyanate leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal killed thousands and left a mixed legal record that still shapes industrial-disaster law.
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