List of famines
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This is an incomplete list (from the corresponding Wikipedia page of 2007) of major famines, ordered by date.
A complete list will almost certainly never become available.
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5th century BC
- 440 BC famine in Ancient Rome..
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5th century AD
- Famine in Western Europe associated with the Fall of Rome and its sack by Alaric I. See Medieval demography.
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7th century AD
- 639 AD - Famine in Arabia during the Caliphate of `Umar ibn Al-Khattab
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14th century
- 1315-1317 Great Famine in Europe
- 1333-1337 famine in China
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16th century
- 1567-1570 Famine in Harar in Ethiopia, combined with plague. Nur ibn Mujahid, Emir of Harar, died.
- 1590s famines in Europe
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17th century
- 1618-1648 famines in Europe caused by Thirty Years' War
- 1630-1631 famine in India (Note: There was a corresponding famine in northwestern China, eventually causing the Ming dynasty to collapse in 1644.)
- 1693-1694 famine in France which killed 2 million people
- 1696-1697 famine in Finland
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18th century
- 1740-1741 famine in Ireland
- 1770 famine in Bengal
- 1783 famine in Iceland caused by volcanic eruption
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19th century
- 1816-1817 Famine in Europe (Year Without a Summer)
- 1830s Tenpo famine (Japan)
- 1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
- 1846-1857 Highland Potato Famine in Scotland
- 1866 famine in India (Bengal and Orissa)
- 1866-1868 Famine in Finland
- 1879 Famine in Ireland
- 1876-1879 Famine in India, China, Brazil, Northern Africa (and other countries)
- 1888-1892 Ethiopian Great famine. Conditions worsen with cholera outbreaks (1889-92), a typhus epidemic, and a major smallpox epidemic (1889-90).
- 1896-1897 Famine in northern China
- 1896-1902 Famine in India
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20th century
- 1914-1918 Mount Lebanon famine during World War I
- 1921 famine in Russia
- 1921-1922 Famine in Tatarstan
- 1928-1929 famine in northern China
- 1933 famine in Ukraine (Holodomor), other parts of Russia, Kazakhstan and Caucasus area
- 1941-1942 famine in Greece caused by Nazi occupation
- 1943 famine in Bengal
- 1944 famine in the Netherlands during World War II
- 1945 famine in Vietnam
- 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward / Three Years of Natural Disasters (China); this famine is considered the greatest famine in history. It killed more people than all the victims counted in List of massacres. Estimates are in the tens of millions.
- 1968-1972 Sahel drought
- 1973 famine in Ethiopia; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule.
- 1974 famine in Bangladesh
- 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
- 1997 North Korean famine
- famine in Sudan caused by war and drought
- famine in Zimbabwe
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21st century
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Droughts which have not yet become famines
- 2003- famine in Sudan/Darfur (Darfur conflict)
- 2005 Malawi food crisis
- 2005-06 Niger food crisis
- 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis
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References
- Livy 4.13
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