Great Famine of 1876–78
1876–1878 · Event
A catastrophic famine across southern India kills millions, intensifying criticism of British colonial economic policy.
On these timelines: India, Master
More from India
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Bengal famine of 1943 (1943)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Mughal Empire ends (1857)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Gupta Empire (320)
Around 1876
- Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung premieres (1876)
- German unification (1871)
- War and Peace (1869)
- Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa (1884)
- Winston Churchill (1874)
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Albert Einstein (1879)
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)