Great Famine of Ireland
1845–1852 · Event
Potato blight plus laissez-faire British policy kills about a million Irish and triggers a similar exodus to North America.
On these timelines: Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom (combined), Master, England
More from Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Good Friday Agreement (1998)
- Partition of Ireland (1921)
- Plantation of Ulster (1609)
- Saint Patrick (385)
- Easter Rising (Dublin) (1916)
Around 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)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Victorian era begins (1837)