Events Tagged: "famine"

Megadrought begins in Eastern Mediterranean - 150-300 year drought starts, worst of entire Bronze Age period

Great Famine under Claudius - predicted by prophet Agabus, Queen Helena of Adiabene brings relief from Egypt

Genevieve breaks Childeric's siege of Paris - leads flotilla up Seine to Troyes for grain, feeds starving city

Benedict I becomes sixty-second pope - Rome besieged by Lombards, dies during famine

Potatoes save Prussia from famine - Frederick the Great orders cultivation, prevents starvation during Seven Years' War

Irish Potato Famine begins - Phytophthora infestans destroys crops, one million die, two million emigrate