- — Europe:
The Great Famine (An Gorta Mór)
Potato blight destroyed Ireland's staple crop from 1845; about a million people died and a million more emigrated, and the population fell sharply even as food continued to be exported amid an inadequate British relief effort.
Era: Union, Famine and the National Movement
Sources: Irish Potato Famine: Date, Cause & Great Hunger · HISTORY, The Great Hunger: The History of An Gorta Mór · The Irish Memorial, Philadelphia
- — Europe:
The Great Irish Famine
Potato blight and an inadequate, laissez-faire government response caused mass starvation in Ireland, killing roughly a million people and forcing about a million more to emigrate.
Era: Empire, industry, and the Victorian age
Sources: The Great Famine · UK Parliament, Great Famine (Irish history) · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catastrophe in the 1840s
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 1840s — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, all of it in 1845. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1845
- Latest
- 1845
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.