< 1,000's 1,000's DATE OF FAMINE PLACE OF FAMINE DEAD AFFECTED

3500 BC. Egypt

? Sumer

2650 BC. Egypt (7 year famine under Pharoah Zoser)

2400 BC. Egypt (relief art at Saqqara)

Canaan (Abraham)

2000 BC. China

Egypt, Canaan (Joseph's 7 year famine)

1751 BC. 13 year drought relieved under King Tang

1250 BC. Israel (Ruth)

~800 BC. Lydia (probable migration of Etruscans)

440/439 BC. Rome, Italy

438/7 BC. Israel, famine among returnees

436 BC. Rome, Italy 3 est.

~423 BC. Famine in Israel in Neh 5:2-3

Famine after Socrates' death

226-180 BC. Famine and war in China

44-41 BC. China

15 BC. Flood and famine in China

108 BC-1911 AD China 1,828 famines

20-23 AD. Wang Mang's famine relief measures in China

50 AD. Israel (Acts)

298 AD. Drought in Szechuan

310 England 40

627 Syria

917-918 Kashmir, India

1064-72 Egypt

1069 England after Norman invasion

1200-1202 Egypt

1229 Novgorod 10's of thousands 20

1235 England (London alone had 20K) 20  

1259 Kamakura, Japan

1315-17 Central & West Europe;10% died 4600 1333-37 China 4M dead one region alone 5000 1347-48 Italy

1551 Delhi, India

1557 Russia

1594-98 India

1600 Russia 400

1630 Deccan, India (30K in Surat alone) 50 1650-52 Russia

1669-1670 Bengal 3000

1677 Hyderabad, India

1693 France

Mid 1700's Iceland

1769 France 1200

1769-70 Bangladesh, India (65000 or 10000) 8500

1770 Eastern Europe 188 1775 Cape Verde Islands 16

Miao during war in China 400

1790-92 South & Central India 7000

1799-1800 Crops 1/2 & 3/4 average in England few

1803-04 West India (drought,locusts) 3

1816-1817 Ireland 737

1837-38 NW India (drought) 800 1862 Lin-an, China famine + disease + suicidal drown 400

1846-51 Ireland Potato Famine (potato blight) 1009

1860-1901 India - Ten famines 15,000

1866 Algiers, Algeria; due to a locust plague 200

1868-70 Northwest and Central India (drought) 10000 36000

1869 Severe famine in North Korea

1871 Paris, France (Communard unrest) 10.8 1874-75 Asia Minor 150

1876-78 India (drought) 5000

1876-79 North China (The Three year drought)9.5M or 11M 11000

Cherokee Trail of Tears

1892-94 China (drought) 1000 1896-97 India (drought) 5000 1899-00 India (drought) 2250 1912-1940 China 370 famines

1920-21 North China (drought and war) 500 20000 1921-22 Ukraine,Volga, USSR (3M oir 3125) 3125 22000

1928-29 Shensi,Honan,Kansu, China (3M Shensi) 5000 1932-34 Soviet Union (Communist collectivism) 5000 1941-43 Greece 450

1941-42 Warsaw, Poland 43

1943 Rwanda-Burundi 42.5

1943-44 Bengal, India 1500

1947 Soviet Union

1953 Korea (After Korean war)

1960-61 Congo Republic after Civil War 1965- Sahel, Africa 300

1968-69 Biafra, Nigeria after Biafran War 1972-1973 Drought in Senegal

1973-74 Mali 100

1973-74 Ethiopia 200

1975 Drought in Somalia >30

1978 Drought in Senegal

1990 Sudan, Ethiopia

1992- Somalia 6000

TOTAL 85787 84000

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by Steven M. Morrison, PhD.