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The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled. Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.
Except for a widespread El Nino drought in 1888, the late 1880s and early 1890s were a period of extremely heavy rainfall [1] over New South Wales, Queensland and to a lesser extent Victoria and the settled areas of Tasmania and South Australia. Lake Eyre is believed to have filled with water from Cooper Creek in 1886/1887, 1889/1890 and 1894 ...
On 17 November 1891, the government asked the people to form voluntary anti-famine organizations. [7] Leo Tolstoy, the most famous volunteer, [8] blamed the Tsar and the Russian Orthodox Church for the famine. As a result, the Orthodox Church excommunicated Tolstoy and forbade citizens from accepting help from his relief organization. [9]
Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade: Indonesia: 50,000 [157] 1966–1967 Rice crisis [158] Burma: 1967–1970: Famine caused by Nigerian Civil War and blockade: Biafra: 2,000,000: 1968–1972: Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people [159] Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger and ...
The road was replaced by those around the reservoir in the early 1890s, the Jersey City News reported in 1890. ... The region has been dealing with severe drought, going more than a month with no ...
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]
The resulting mortality was high. 462,000 people died in the Bombay Presidency, and in the Deccan Plateau, the estimated death toll was 166,000. [4] In the Presidency, the famine of 1899–1900 had the highest mortality—at 37.9 deaths per 1000—among all famines and scarcities there between 1876–77 and 1918–19. [5]
In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...