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, The Irish Famine, Master, United Kingdom (combined), England
More from The Irish Famine
- The potato blight reaches Ireland (1845)
- Black '47 (1847)
- The coffin-ship emigration (1846)
- London winds down famine relief (1847)
- The census counts Ireland's missing millions (1851)
- The Gregory clause (1847)
- Young Irelander Rebellion (1848)
Around 1845
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)