[muawiyah]

Forgot to mention it but there were SEVERAL famines in the 1800s. The first one occurs roughly between 1810 to 1813. That overlaps an exciting period in the Napoleonic Wars. It usually isn't mentioned as part of European history since it only hit the European Arctic, parts of Western Russia, and Central Asia ~ with a huge chunk of Siberia and China.

Virtually all the Sa'ami in the Sapma moved West and South out of the Kola peninsula. Siberia was denuded of animals all the way to the Pacific. That's one of the reasons the fur hunters traveled all the way around Siberia on the Arctic passage (in season) to get furs in Alaska. They also found they needed to buy vegetables for human consumption from the Spanish in the San Francisco Bay region.

Every now and then someone will mention a famine in the late 1700s ~ but it's not well documented so no one knows where it hit.

[Betis70]

Interesting info.

From what I understand the Great Famine killed as many people as those who were able to flee Ireland (about a million of each).

Apparently there was another famine in the 1879-1880 in the west of Ireland, which might explain why my County Galway family finally fled, though I have distant relatives that live there.