List of famines

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

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

A complete list will almost certainly never become available.

5th century BC

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]

5th century AD

7th century AD

8th century

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

10th century

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

13th century

14th century

15th century

  • 1403-1404 famine in Egypt
  • 1441 famine in Mayapan, Mexico[18]
  • 1445 famine in Korea
  • 1450-1454 famine in Aztec Empire
  • 1460 – 1461 Kanshō famine in Japan

16th century

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; see Russian famine of 1601 - 1603. [21][22] 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.[23]
  • 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[24]
  • 1661 famine in India, when not a drop of rain fell for two years[25]
  • 1661-1662 famine in Morocco
  • 1661-1662 famine in France
  • 1669 famine in Bengal
  • 1680 famine in Sardinia[26]
  • 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[27][28]
  • 1695-1697 Great Famine of Estonia 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[29]

18th century

19th century

20th century

21st century

See also

References

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  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. ^ Collapse: Chaco Canyon
  15. ^ The Great Famine and the Black Death
  16. ^ Projects and Events: 14th Century
  17. ^ Bidar District Important Historical Events
  18. ^ Welcome to The Human Past
  19. ^ Land and Society in Golden Age Castile
  20. ^ The Dimension of Famine
  21. ^ Boris Feodorovich Godunov
  22. ^ Russia before Peter the Great
  23. ^ A Chronology of Japanese History
  24. ^ BBC - Northern Ireland - A Short History
  25. ^ The 17th Century
  26. ^ Italian States in the Seventeenth Century
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  30. ^ The Dimension of Famine.
  31. ^ The Little Ice Age in Europe
  32. ^ Climatic fluctuation and natural disasters in Arabia between mid-17th and early 20th Centuries
  33. ^ Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age
  34. ^ Len Milich: Anthropogenic Desertification vs ‘Natural’ Climate Trends
  35. ^ Naples and Sicily -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  36. ^ FAMINE ()
  37. ^ The locust plague
  38. ^ Haze Famine (Icelandic history)
  39. ^ ScienceDaily: Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, Study Shows
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  43. ^ Fearfull Famines of the Past
  44. ^ The Great Famine in Ireland, 1845-1849
  45. ^ Ch'ing China: The Taiping Rebellion
  46. ^ The Great Persian Famine of 1870-1871
  47. ^ The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878–80, Arctic Anthropology
  48. ^ Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again -- and aid groups fear the worst
  49. ^ El Niño and Drought Early Warning in Ethiopia
  50. ^ The History of International Humanitarian Assistance
  51. ^ Late Victorian Holocausts
  52. ^ Another Famine
  53. ^ Global Connections . Timeline
  54. ^ Famine perspectives from past and present
  55. ^ World's worst natural disasters since 1900
  56. ^ The German Colonies on the Volga River - Famine Years
  57. ^ The NDSU Libraries: Germans From Russia
  58. ^ Famine of 1932, or Ukrainian genocide (Soviet history)
  59. ^ Legacy of famine divides Ukraine
  60. ^ The Kazakh Catastrophe and Stalin’s Order of Priorities, 1929-1933: Evidence from the Soviet Secret Archives
  61. ^ Natural Disasters and Hazards - Historical Events Timeline
  62. ^ 900-Day Siege of Leningrad
  63. ^ Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944
  64. ^ The 1947 Soviet famine and the entitlement approach to famines, Cambridge Journal of Economics
  65. ^ The world's worst natural disasters
  66. ^ The Architect of India's Second Liberation
  67. ^ Famine Casts Its Grim Global Shadow, TIME
  68. ^ Famine plagues Zimbabwe
  69. ^ Food crisis looms in Myanmar, International Herald Tribune
  70. ^ North Korea at risk of famine, says U.N., CNN.com
  71. ^ The Next Great North Korean Famine, TIME
  72. ^ Ethiopia facing new famine with 4.5 million children in danger of starvation , Telegraph
  73. ^ Famine Looms as Wars Rend Horn of Africa, NYTimes.com
  74. ^ Food crisis leaves Afghans desperate, msnbc.com
  75. ^ Food Crisis Looms in Bangladesh, International Business Times
  76. ^ In-depth | Food Crisis: Status and Impacts, IRIN
  77. ^ Tajikistan: Almost One-Third of the Population Is in Danger of Going Hungry This Winter, EurasiaNet

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