Great Famine

Great Famine may refer to:

Africa

• Ethiopia 1888-1892
• Ethiopia 1983-1985
• Horn of Africa 2006
• Sahel famine 2010
• East Africa 2011

Asia

China

• Northern Chinese Famine of 1876-1879
• Great Chinese Famine (1958-1961)

India

• The Great Famine of 1344-1345
• The Great Famine of 1630-1632 - Deccan Plateau
• The Great Famine of 1770 - Bengal
• The Great Famine of 1782-83 - Deccan Plateau
• The Great Famine of 1783-84 - North & Western India
• The Skull Famine of 1791-1792 - Deccan Plateau
• The Great Famine of 1837–1838 - North-Western Provinces
• Rajputana famine of 1869 - Rajputana
• Bihar famine of 1873–74 - Northern & Eastern India
• The Great Famine of 1876–1878 - Deccan Plateau
• The Great Famine of 1943-1944 - Bengal

Japan

• The Great Famine of 1782-1788 in Japan
• The Great Famine of 1833-1837 in Japan

North Korea

• The Great North Korean famine 1994-1998

Russia and the Soviet Union

• Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union, various "Great Famines"
• Russian famine of 1921 - A 2011 documentary film about it is entitled The Great Famine

Vietnam

• Vietnamese Famine of 1945

Europe

• Great Famine of 1315–1317, in northern Europe
• Irish Famine (1740–1741), sometimes called the "Forgotten Famine" due to its being overshadowed by that of 1845-1849
• Great Famine (Ireland), 1845-1849 occasion for the great exodus of Irish and the Irish diaspora
• "Great Famine of 1932-1933" in Ukraine, known as the Holodomor
• Great Famine (Greece), in Axis occupied Greece (1941-1944).