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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Chinese famine of 1333–1337; G. Great Famine of 1315–1317 This page was last edited on 2 October 2024, at 19:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Chinese famine of 1333–1337; Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879; Chinese famine of 1906–1907; Chinese famine of 1928–1930; Chinese famine of 1942–1943; C.
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.
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 ...
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]