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The Chinese famine of 1333–1337 was a famine resulting from a series of climatic disasters in China, then under Toghon Temür of Yuan dynasty. The famine was aggravated by pestilence laying the whole country waste.
Peasant rebellion in China inspired by famine; [11] [12] Huang Chao captured capital: China: 927–928: Famine caused by four months of frost [13] [14] Byzantine Empire: 942–944 Famine in the Yellow River Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining ...
Estimates of mortality during the Great Chinese Famine Deaths (in millions) Researchers Year Comments 55 Yu Xiguang (余习广) 2015 Yu is an independent Chinese historian and a former instructor at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, estimated that 55 million people died due to the famine.
The famine eventually came in Spring 1901. [15] 0.2 million in Shanxi, the worst hit province. Chinese famine of 1906–1907: 1906-07 northern Anhui, northern Jiangsu 20 to 25 million [16] Chinese famine of 1920-1921: 1920–1921 Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, southern Zhili 0.5 million [17] Chinese famine of 1928–30: 1928–1930 Northern ...
Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 instances of famine from 108 BC to 1911 in one province or another—an average of close to one famine per year. From 1333 to 1337 a famine in the north killed 6 million Chinese. The four famines of 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 cost perhaps 45 million lives. [28] [29] The period from 1850 to 1873 saw, as a ...
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book about the Great Chinese Famine by British author Jasper Becker, the former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Becker interviewed peasants in Henan Province and Anhui Province , both of which were significantly affected by the famine. [ 3 ]
Northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine” which is rapidly spreading across the strip after almost seven months of war, the executive director of the World Food Programme has said.
A famine (lasting until 1337) breaks out in China, killing six million. A great famine takes place in Southern Europe. It is known to historians of Catalonia as Lo mal any primer, "the First Bad Year" (equivalent to the Great Famine of 1315–1317 further north), an early notice of the catastrophes of the second half of this century. [2]