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  2. Droughts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled. Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.

  3. Federation Drought - Wikipedia

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    Except for a widespread El Nino drought in 1888, the late 1880s and early 1890s were a period of extremely heavy rainfall [1] over New South Wales, Queensland and to a lesser extent Victoria and the settled areas of Tasmania and South Australia. Lake Eyre is believed to have filled with water from Cooper Creek in 1886/1887, 1889/1890 and 1894 ...

  4. List of droughts - Wikipedia

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    Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...

  5. List of famines in China - Wikipedia

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    Drought, decades of declining grain production relative to population size. [12] 9.5 to 13 million [13] Northern Chinese Famine of 1901 1901 Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia The drought from 1898-1901 led to a fear of famine, which was a leading cause of Boxer Rebellion. The famine eventually came in Spring 1901. [14]

  6. Great depression of British agriculture - Wikipedia

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    After a series of droughts in the early 1890s, Gladstone's government appointed another Royal Commission into the depression in 1894. Its final report found foreign competition as the main cause in the fall in prices. It recommended changes in land tenure, tithes, education and other minor items. [58]

  7. 'Ghost bridge' submerged for more than a century in North ...

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    The road was replaced by those around the reservoir in the early 1890s, the Jersey City News reported in 1890. ... The region has been dealing with severe drought, going more than a month with no ...

  8. Dust Bowl - Wikipedia

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    While initial agricultural endeavors were primarily cattle ranching, the harsh winters' adverse effect on the cattle, beginning in 1886, a short drought in 1890, and general overgrazing, led many landowners to increase the amount of land under cultivation.

  9. Column: Trump's glorification of the 1890s in America ...

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    In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...