List of famines

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This is an incomplete list of major famines, ordered by date.

A complete list will almost certainly never become available.

Depiction of victims of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1849
Depiction of victims of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1849

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[edit] 5th century BC

[edit] 2nd century BC

  • Between 108 BC and 1911 AD there were no fewer than 1828 major famines in China, or one nearly every year in one or another province; however, the famines varied greatly in severity.[1][2]

[edit] 5th century AD

[edit] 7th century AD

  • 639 AD - Famine in Arabia during the Caliphate of `Umar ibn Al-Khattab
  • 650 Famine throughout India

[edit] 8th century

[edit] 9th century

  • 800-1000 AD, severe drought killed millions of Maya people with famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization[5]
  • 809 famine in Frankish Empire[6]
  • 875-884 peasant rebellion in China inspired by famine; Huang Chao captured capital

[edit] 10th century

[edit] 11th century

  • 1005 Famine in England[8] There were 95 famines in the Middle Ages.[9][10]
  • 1016 Famine throughout Europe[11]
  • 1022,1033 Great famines in India, in which entire provinces were depopulated
  • 1064-1072 Seven years' famine in Egypt
  • 1051 famine forced the Toltecs to migrate from a stricken region in what is now central Mexico[12]
  • 1066 famine in England

[edit] 13th century

[edit] 14th century

[edit] 15th century

  • 1403-1404 famine in Egypt
  • 1441 famine in Mayapan, Mexico[17]
  • 1445 famine in Korea
  • 1450-1454 famine in Aztec Empire
  • 1460 – 1461 Kanshō famine in Japan

[edit] 16th century

  • 1504 famine in Spain[18]
  • 1518 famine in Venice
  • 1528 famine in Languedoc, France[19]
  • 1540 famine in Spain
  • 1555 famine in England
  • 1567-1570 famine in Harar in Ethiopia, combined with plague. Emir of Harar, died.
  • 1574-1576 famine in Istanbul and Anatolia
  • 1586 famine in England which gave rise to the Poor Law system
  • 1590s famines in Europe

[edit] 17th century

  • 1599-1600 famine in Spain
  • 1601-1603 one of the worst famines in all of Russian history; famine killed as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of Tsar Godunov's subjects.[20][21] Same famine killed about half Estonian population.
  • 1611 famine in Anatolia
  • 1618-1648 famines in Europe caused by Thirty Years' War
  • 1619 famine in Japan. During the Tokugawa period, there were 154 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious.[22]
  • 1623-1624 famine in England
  • 1630-1631 Deccan famine in India kills 2,000,000 (Note: There was a corresponding famine in northwestern China, eventually causing the Ming dynasty to collapse in 1644.)
  • 1636 famine in Spain
  • 1648-1660 Poland lost an estimated 1/3 of its population due to the wars, famine, and plague
  • 1649 famine in northern England
  • 1650-1652 famine in the east of France
  • 1651-1653 famine throughout much of Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland[23]
  • 1661 famine in India, when not a drop of rain fell for two years[24]
  • 1661-1662 famine in Morocco
  • 1661-1662 famine in France
  • 1669 famine in Bengal
  • 1680 famine in Sardinia[25]
  • 1680 famine in Japan
  • 1680s famine in Sahel
  • 1690s famine in Scotland which may have killed 15% of the population
  • 1693-1694 famine in France which killed 2 million people[26]
  • 1695-1697 famine killed about a fifth of Estonian population (70 000 – 75 000 people). Famine also hit Sweden (80 000 – 100 000 dead)
  • 1696-1697 famine in Finland wiped out almost a third of the population[27]

[edit] 18th century

[edit] 19th century

[edit] 20th century

[edit] 21st century

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ China: Land of Famine
  2. ^ "Heaven, Observe!" - TIME
  3. ^ A Brief History of Population
  4. ^ Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages
  5. ^ The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death
  6. ^ The Ninth Century
  7. ^ The Economic History of Byzantinum
  8. ^ 1005: The People's Chronology
  9. ^ Famines through history.
  10. ^ Poor studies will always be with us
  11. ^ Famine - LoveToKnow 1911
  12. ^ The Facts of Malnutrition and Famine
  13. ^ Portugal > History and Events
  14. ^ The Great Famine and the Black Death
  15. ^ Projects and Events: 14th Century
  16. ^ Bidar District Important Historical Events
  17. ^ Welcome to The Human Past
  18. ^ Land and Society in Golden Age Castile
  19. ^ The Dimension of Famine
  20. ^ Boris Feodorovich Godunov
  21. ^ Russia before Peter the Great
  22. ^ A Chronology of Japanese History
  23. ^ BBC - Northern Ireland - A Short History
  24. ^ The 17th Century
  25. ^ Italian States in the Seventeenth Century
  26. ^ Famine And Market In Ancient Régime France
  27. ^ Finland timeline
  28. ^ The Dimension of Famine.
  29. ^ The Little Ice Age in Europe
  30. ^ Climatic fluctuation and natural disasters in Arabia between mid-17th and early 20th Centuries
  31. ^ Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age
  32. ^ Len Milich: Anthropogenic Desertification vs ‘Natural’ Climate Trends
  33. ^ Naples and Sicily -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  34. ^ FAMINE ()
  35. ^ The locust plague
  36. ^ Haze Famine (Icelandic history)
  37. ^ ScienceDaily: Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, Study Shows
  38. ^ Richard H. Grove, “Global Impact of the 1789–93 El Niño,” Nature 393 (1998), 318-319.
  39. ^ Wood, C.A., 1992. "The climatic effects of the 1783 Laki eruption" in C. R. Harrington (Ed.), The Year Without a Summer? Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, pp. 58– 77
  40. ^ Great Historical Events that were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 2, The Year Leading to the Revolution of 1789 in France
  41. ^ Fearfull Famines of the Past
  42. ^ The Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-1849
  43. ^ Ch'ing China: The Taiping Rebellion
  44. ^ The Great Persian Famine of 1870-1871
  45. ^ Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again -- and aid groups fear the worst
  46. ^ El Niño and Drought Early Warning in Ethiopia
  47. ^ The History of International Humanitarian Assistance
  48. ^ Another Famine
  49. ^ Global Connections . Timeline
  50. ^ Famine perspectives from past and present
  51. ^ World's worst natural disasters since 1900
  52. ^ The German Colonies on the Volga River - Famine Years
  53. ^ The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
  54. ^ Famine of 1932, or Ukrainian genocide (Soviet history)
  55. ^ Legacy of famine divides Ukraine
  56. ^ The Kazakh Catastrophe and Stalin’s Order of Priorities, 1929-1933: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
  57. ^ Natural Disasters and Hazards - Historical Events Timeline
  58. ^ Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944
  59. ^ The Architect of India's Second Liberation
  60. ^ Famine plagues Zimbabwe

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