Famine soup kitchens
1847 · Event
Under the Temporary Relief Act, soup kitchens feed three million people a day before the government winds them down.
On these timelines: The Irish Famine, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Master
More from The Irish Famine
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- 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 1847
- Crimean War (1853)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)