famine
121Grande famine en irlande — La Grande Famine (en irlandais An Gorta Mór ou An Drochshaol, en anglais the Blight/ The Irish Potato Famine / The Great Famine ), est le nom donné à une famine majeure en Irlande entre 1845 et 1849. L apparition de cette famine est le résultat… …
122Irish Potato Famine — (1845–49) Famine that occurred in Ireland when the potato crop failed in successive years. By the early 1840s almost half the Irish population, particularly the rural poor, was depending almost entirely on the potato for nourishment. A reliance… …
123Dutch famine of 1944 — See also: History of the Netherlands (1939–1945) The Dutch famine of 1944, known as the Hongerwinter ( Hunger winter ) in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the German occupied part of the Netherlands, especially in the densely populated… …
124Bengal famine of 1770 — The Bengal famine of 1770 (Bengali: ৭৬ এর মন্বন্তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór ; lit The Famine of 76 ) was a catastrophic famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India. The famine… …
125Bihar famine of 1873–74 — The Bihar famine of 1873–74 (also the Bengal famine of 1873–74) was a famine in India that followed a drought in the province of Bihar and the neighboring provinces of Bengal and the United Provinces; it affected an area of 54,000 square miles… …
126Agra famine of 1837–38 — The Agra famine of 1837–38 [ The famine is often referred to as the Agra famine because, just before it began, the North Western Provinces, then the Ceded and Conquered Provinces, were to have become the Presidency of Agra ; later, in 1904, the… …
127Lancashire Cotton Famine — An 1862 newspaper illustration showing people waiting in line for food and coal tickets at a district Provident Society office The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as The Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–1865), was a depression in the… …
128Orissa famine of 1866 — A 1907 map of Orissa, shown as the southwestern region of Greater Bengal. Coastal Balasore district was one of the worst hit areas in the Orissa famine of 1866. The Orissa famine of 1866 affected the east coast of India from Madras upwards, an… …
