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

Contents

[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, which however 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. ^ Famine plagues Zimbabwe

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