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Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of Portugal [89] Portugal: 1846–1848 The Newfoundland Potato Famine, related to the Great Famine of Ireland: Newfoundland, present-day Canada: 1849–1850: Demak and Grobogan in central Java, caused by four successive crop failures due to drought. Indonesia: 83,000 [90 ...
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 (occasionally dated 1315–1322) was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe (extending east to Poland and south to the Alps) was affected. [ 1 ]
The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...
Great Chinese Famine ... [10] It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General What links here; ... Great Famine of 1695–1697; Finnish famine of 1866 ...
The colder climate resulted in agricultural crises, the first of which is known as the Great Famine of 1315–1317. [68] The demographic consequences of this famine , however, were not as severe as the plagues that occurred later in the century, particularly the Black Death . [ 69 ]
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau . [ 1 ] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay , and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad —for a period ...
Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...