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This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. Famines by continent (4 C) Famines by country (17 C, 1 P) Famines by century (11 C)
The Chalisa famine of 1783–1784 in the Indian subcontinent followed unusual El Niño events that began in 1780 and caused droughts throughout the region. [1] Chalisa (literally, "of the fortieth" in Hindustani) refers to the Vikram Samvat calendar year 1840 (1783). [2] The famine affected many parts of North India, especially the Delhi ...
The Doji bara famine (also Skull famine) of 1791–1792 in the Indian subcontinent was brought on by a major El Niño event lasting from 1789–1795 and producing prolonged droughts. [1] Recorded by William Roxburgh, a surgeon with the British East India Company, in a series of pioneering meteorological observations, the El Niño event caused ...
Famine food. Breads made of orache and bran, fried in machine oil, were used as food in besieged Leningrad. [] A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters ...
1943–1944. Total deaths. Estimated 0.8 to 3.8 million [A] in Bengal alone. The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and ...
La grande famine irlandaise, ou localement la Grande Famine (en irlandais : An Gorta Mór ou An Drochshaol ; en anglais : The Blight, The Irish Potato Famine ou The Great Famine ), est une famine de grande ampleur survenue en Irlande entre 1845 et 1852 . Cette catastrophe fut en grande partie le résultat de cinquante années d'interactions ...
6 de abr. de 2024 · famine ( countable and uncountable, plural famines) ( uncountable) Extreme shortage of food in a region. It was reserved for Christians to torture bread, the staff of life, bread for which children in whole districts wail, bread, the gift of pasture to the poor, bread, for want of which thousands of our fellow beings annually perish by famine ...
