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The Lancashire Cotton Famine, also known as the Cotton Famine or the Cotton Panic (1861–65), was a depression in the textile industry of North West England, brought about by overproduction in a time of contracting world markets. It coincided with the interruption of baled cotton imports caused by the American Civil War and speculators buying ...
Location of the Famine Stela in Egypt. The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic ...
2021–2022 Madagascar famine. Drought conditions in Southern Madagascar in 2021. In mid-2021, a severe drought in southern [1] Madagascar caused hundreds of thousands of people, with some estimating more than 1 million people including nearly 460,000 children, to suffer from food insecurity [2] or famine. [3]
Succeeded by. 1983–1985 famine. The 1972–1975 Wollo famine was a major famine in the Ethiopian Empire during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie. The famine widely ravaged the two provinces as well as converging areas such as Afar -inhabited arid region by early 1972. During 1972 and 1973, the famine killed between 40,000 and 80,000 people. [2]
Famine's mission to make wheat and barley scarce but "hurt not the oil and the wine" could be an allusion to this episode. [35] [52] The red horse and its rider, who take peace from the Earth, might represent the prevalence of civil strife at the time Revelation was written; internecine conflict ran rampant in the Roman Empire during and just prior to the 1st century AD.
The Great Bullion Famine was a shortage of precious metals that struck Europe in the 15th century, with the worst years of the famine lasting from 1457 to 1464. During the Middle Ages , gold and silver coins saw widespread use as currency in Europe, and facilitated trade with the Middle East and Asia ; the shortage of these metals therefore became a problem for European economies.
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. [1] It affected south and Southwestern India —the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad —for a period of ...
