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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 ...
3.6 Latin America. 3.7 ... In Sudan the year 1888 is remembered as the worst famine in history, ... The largest famine of the 20th century was the 1958–1961 famine ...
Hunger in the United States of America affects millions of Americans, including some who are middle class, or who are in households where all adults are in work. The United States produces far more food than it needs for domestic consumption— hunger within the U.S. is caused by some Americans having insufficient money to buy food for ...
Great Bengal famine of 1770; Chalisa famine; Doji bara famine; Guntur famine of 1832; Agra famine of 1837–1838; Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861; Orissa famine of 1866; Rajputana famine of 1869; Bihar famine of 1873–1874; Great Famine of 1876–1878; Tamil Nadu famine (1891) Indian famine of 1896–1897; Indian famine of 1899–1900; Bengal ...
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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 ...
These commodities' prices did not recover until the late 1830s, although to a significantly lower price level. Most damaging was the price of cotton: the U.S.'s main export. Food crop prices, which had been high because of the famine of 1816 that was caused by the year without a summer, fell after the return of normal harvests in 1818. Improved ...
This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths that are either directly or indirectly caused by war.These numbers include the deaths of military personnel which are the direct results of a battle or other military wartime actions, as well as wartime/war-related deaths of civilians which are often results of war-induced epidemics, famines, genocide, etc. Due to incomplete records, the ...