Irish Potato Famine
1845–1852 · Event
Blight devastates Ireland's staple crop; perhaps a million die, another million emigrate.
On these timelines: Master, England
Around 1845
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Victorian era begins (1837)