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Chinese officials engaged in famine relief, 19th-century engraving. In China, famines have been an ongoing problem for thousands of years. From the Shang dynasty (16th–11th century BC) until the founding of modern China, chroniclers have regularly described recurring disasters. There have always been times and places where rains have failed ...
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 ...
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 (Chinese: δΈζε₯θ) was marked by drought-induced crop failures and subsequent widespread starvation.Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died [1] mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan (1 million) and Shandong (0.5 million). [2]
The largest famine of the 20th century, and almost certainly of all time, was the 1958–1961 famine associated with the Great Leap Forward in China. The immediate causes of this famine lay in Mao Zedong's ill-fated attempt to transform China from an agricultural nation to an industrial power in one huge leap.
This is a timeline of Chinese history, ... 19th century BC. Year Date Event 1900 BC: The Erlitou culture appeared. 1890 BC: Xie was succeeded by his son Bu Jiang.
Pages in category "19th-century famines" ... 0–9. 1846–1848 Newfoundland potato famine; 1890s African rinderpest epizootic; ... Northern Chinese Famine of 1876 ...
In 1878, China was experiencing the drought-induced Dingwu Famine, which caused widespread starvation in northern China and between nine and thirteen million deaths. Due to the drought, many people fled from the northern provinces to Beijing and Tianjin.
Chinese officials engaged in famine relief, 19th-century engraving. Chinese scholars had kept count of 1,828 instances of famine from 108 BC to 1911 in one province or another—an average of more than one famine per year. [64] A major famine from 1333 to 1337 killed 6 million.