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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 ...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...
Great Chinese Famine 三年大饥荒; Country: China: Location: Half of the country. Death rate were highest in Anhui (18% dead), Chongqing (15%), Sichuan (13%), Guizhou (11%) and Hunan (8%). [1] Period: 1959–1961: Total deaths: 15–55 million: Theory: Result of the Great Leap Forward, people's commune, Four Pests campaign and other factors ...
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book about the Great Chinese Famine by British author Jasper Becker, the former Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Becker interviewed peasants in Henan Province and Anhui Province , both of which were significantly affected by the famine. [ 3 ]
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 ...
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.
The first memorial to memorialize the victims of the famine was erected in Beirut in 2018, marking the 100th year since the end of the famine. The site is called "The Great Famine Memorial", and is located in front of the Saint-Joseph University It was erected based on initiatives by Lebanese historian Christian Taoutel (curator of the memorial ...
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau . [ 1 ] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay , and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad —for a period ...