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famines - events| 1316 | Europe | Famine in Western Europe, brought on by the previous bad harvest, causes heavy mortality and brings population growth to a halt. | | 1333 | China | The onset of famines, which persist until 1347, and the flooding of the Yellow River combine to ruin the Chinese economy and further weaken the Yüan (Mongol) dynasty. | | 1669 | India, Mogul Empire | A famine kills three million people in Bengal (modern Bangladesh). | | 1769–1770 | India | Famine kills 10 million in Bengal, India; it is the worst famine to date. | | 1831 | Europe, Russian Empire | Cholera and famine lead to 900,000 deaths in Europe. | | 1846 | UK | The Irish potato crop fails again, as in 1845, and famine increases despite organized relief. | | 1943 | India | A severe famine strikes Bengal. | | 1982–1984 | Ethiopia | Civil war and drought cause a major famine in Ethiopia; at least 800,000 people die and 1.5 million flee the country before foreign grain is received the following year. | | 1992 | Somalia | A famine in Somalia kills more than 300,000 people. | | January 1998 | North Korea | The German Red Cross estimates that 10,000 children a month are dying from malnutrition in North Korea and that 2 million died in 1997. The famine has been caused by poor agricultural practices that have brought environmental catastrophe. |
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| We are told by historians that widespread famines occurred in those days every two or three years, and such was the condition of things that men actually had recourse to cannibalism, in secret, of course. The blaze of the spring season had burst upon Seawood, littering its foreshore with famines and bathing-machines, with nomadic preachers and nigger minstrels, before the two friends saw it again, and long before the storm of pursuit after the strange secret society had died away. If there exist savages so barbarous as never to think of the inherited character of the offspring of their domestic animals, yet any one animal particularly useful to them, for any special purpose, would be carefully preserved during famines and other accidents, to which savages are so liable, and such choice animals would thus generally leave more offspring than the inferior ones; so that in this case there would be a kind of unconscious selection going on. |