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Famine due to the low water level of the Nile impacting food prices [16] Egypt: 100,000: 1224–1226: Famine: Europe: 1230: Famine in the Novgorod Republic [citation needed] Russia: 1230–1231: The Kanki famine, possibly the worst famine in Japan's history. [24] Caused by volcanic eruptions. [25] Japan: 2,000,000: 1235: Famine in England [26 ...
Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879: 1876 –1879 4. 11,000,000 Chalisa famine: North India: 1783 –1784 Doji bara famine or Skull famine India: 1789 –1793 6. 10,000,000 Great Bengal famine of 1770, incl. Bihar & Orissa British company India: 1769 –1773 7. 7,500,000 Great European Famine: Europe 1315 –1317 8. 7,400,000 Deccan famine ...
Great Chinese Famine of 1958–62 [6] 15–55 million Great Leap Forward economic failure. The starved could not move out because all out-of-town traffic were guarded by militia to contain the news of starvation. [7] Chinese famine of 1876–79. Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan. [8] 9–13 million Drought Chinese famine of 1928–30. Gansu, Shaanxi. [9 ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as wartime or war-related civilian deaths, often caused by war-induced epidemics, famines, or genocides.
Victims of a famine forced to sell their children from The Famine in China (1878) Global famines history. This is a List of famines in China, part of the series of lists of disasters in China. Between 108 BC and 1911 AD, there were no fewer than 1,828 recorded famines in China, or once nearly every year in one province or another. The famines ...
If an estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the failure of the Great Leap Forward caused the deadliest famine in the history of China, and it also caused the deadliest famine in human history. [72] [73] This extremely high loss of human lives was partially caused by China's large population.
The Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 (Chinese: δΈζε₯θ) was marked by drought-induced crop failures and subsequent widespread starvation. Between 9.5 and 13 million people in China died [ 1 ] mostly in Shanxi province (5.5 million dead), but also in Zhili (now Hebei, 2.5 million dead), Henan (1 million) and Shandong (0.5 million). [ 2 ]
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