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The Great Famine of Estonia (also The great starvation) killed about a fifth of Estonian and Livonian population (70,000–75,000 people) in two years. [1]The climate was unfavorable for crops in 1694 and the summer of 1695 was cold and rainy, followed by an early autumn frost that destroyed the summer crops.
The Great Famine of 1695–1697, or simply the Great Famine, was a catastrophic famine that affected the present Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway and Sweden, all of which belonged to the Swedish Empire with the exception of Norway. The areas worst affected were the Swedish province of Finland and Norrland in Sweden proper.
The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. Russia: 2,000,000: 1607–1608: Famine [40] Italy: 1618–1648: Famines in Europe caused by Thirty Years' War: Europe: 1618–1622: Famine [40] Italy: 1619: Famine in Japan. During the Edo period, there were 154 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious. [48] Japan: 1626–1627
Plague during the Great Northern War, a mere decade after The Great Starvation and just after the Great Frost famine killed ca. 57% of people in Estonia. 70,000–75,000: The Great Starvation: 1695–1697: A cold and rainy summer and early autumn frost resulted in crop failure, killing ca. 20% of people in Estonia. 40,000: Great Frost famine: 1709
Over the Estonia, widespread opening of village schools for peasants, starts. [3] 1690: Tartu University is re-opened, but 1699–1710 operates in Pärnu. [3] 1695-1697: Great Famine of Estonia. [3] 1700: 20 November: Battle at Narva, where the Swedish army under King Charles XII defeats the Russian army.
Great Famine of Estonia (1695–1697) F. ... Great Famine of 1315–1317; H. Holodomor; Hunger stone; I. International Commission of Inquiry Into the 1932–1933 ...
The population of Estonia grew rapidly until the Great Famine of 1695–97 in which about 20% of the population died. [114] Kadriorg Palace was built by Peter the Great. During the Great Northern War, Peter the Great of Russia launched another invasion of Estonia in 1700.
Already in 1695–1697, a great famine had already struck Finland (death toll between a quarter and a third of the population), Estonia (death toll about a fifth of the population), Livonia, and Lithuania [10] (where the famine as well as epidemics and warfare killed half of the population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania between 1648 and 1697 ...