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More than three million Bengali perish in a famine that remains one of the worst catastrophes in the history of modern India.

As many as ten million people die as a result of the severe famine.

A severe famine hits the Deccan region in India from 1630–1632.

A great drought and subsequent famine strikes Southern India from 1876–1878.

The eruption kills nearly the entire population of the island of Sumbawa and destroys the coasts of two further Indonesian islands. The spread of ash clouds leads to “the year without summer.”