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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]
Europe: 1304: Famine [31] France: 1305: Famine [31] France: 1310: Famine [31] France: 1314–1315 Famine. Dikes collapsed, fields vanished, crops rotted, and livestock died in huge numbers due to the disease "Rinderpest". The price of wheat jumped "8 fold". [6] England: 1315–1317 or 1322: Great Famine of 1315–1317: Europe [32] 7,500,000: ...
The Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death of 1347–1351 potentially reduced the European population by half or more as the Medieval Warm Period came to a close and the first century of the Little Ice Age began. It took until 1500 for the European population to regain the levels of 1300. [2]
Europe and the Mediterranean region, c. 1354. ... A series of famines and plagues, including the Great Famine of 1315–1317 and the Black Death, ...
Other major famines include the Great Famine of 1315–17, which affected much of Europe including part of Russia [2] [3] as well as the Baltic states. [4] The Nikonian chronicle, written between 1127 and 1303, recorded no less than eleven famine years during that period. [5]
Spring – Great Famine of 1315–1317: A famine and pestilence sweeps over Europe, and exacts so frightful a toll of human life that the phenomenon is to be regarded as one of the most impressive features of the period. It covers almost the whole of Northern Europe; the current territory of Ireland, England, France, Netherlands, Germany and ...
Finnish famine of 1866–1868; European potato failure; G. Famines in Austrian Galicia; Great Famine (Greece) Great Famine of 1315–1317; H. Holodomor; Hunger stone; I.
Crop practices throughout Europe had to be altered to adapt to the shortened and less reliable growing season, and there were many years of scarcity and famine. One was the Great Famine of 1315–1317 , but that may have been before the Little Ice Age. [ 39 ]