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  2. European potato failure - Wikipedia

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    The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...

  3. Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]

  4. History of the potato - Wikipedia

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    The Irish Famine in the western and southern parts of Ireland between 1845 and 1849 was a catastrophic failure in the food supply that led to approximately a million deaths from famine and (especially) diseases that attacked weakened bodies, and to massive emigration to Britain, the U.S., Canada and elsewhere. [52]

  5. Revolutions of 1848 - Wikipedia

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    In the years 1845 and 1846, a potato blight caused a subsistence crisis in Northern Europe, and encouraged the raiding of manorial potato stocks in Silesia in 1847. The effects of the blight were most severely manifested in the Great Irish Famine, [18] but also caused famine-like conditions in the Scottish Highlands and throughout continental ...

  6. Highland Potato Famine - Wikipedia

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    The Highland Potato Famine (Scottish Gaelic: Gaiseadh a' bhuntàta) was a period of 19th-century Highland and Scottish history (1846 to roughly 1856) over which the agricultural communities of the Hebrides and the western Scottish Highlands (Gàidhealtachd) saw their potato crop (upon which they had become over-reliant) repeatedly devastated by potato blight.

  7. Subsistence crisis - Wikipedia

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    The Great Irish Potato Famine Ireland • Over-reliance of the Irish population on the potato crop. • A disease called blight being accidentally transported on ships from America [3] 2016-present Hyperinflation in Venezuela Venezuela • Oil-based, non-diversified economy

  8. Chronology of the Great Famine - Wikipedia

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    The famine left in its wake up to a million dead and another million emigrated. [47] The famine caused a sense of lasting bitterness by the Irish towards the British government, whom many blamed – then and now – for the starvation of so many people. [48] The fall-out of the famine continued for decades afterwards.

  9. Potato revolution - Wikipedia

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    The "Potato revolution" (in German, Kartoffelrevolution) is the name given to the food riot that took place in the Prussian capital Berlin between April 21 and April 22/23, 1847. [ 1 ] This was triggered by failed harvests due to potato blight , which also caused the Great Famine in Ireland as well as famine crises and increased food prices in ...