{"slug": "human-cannibalism", "label": "Human cannibalism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cannibalism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2853058", "qid": "Q2853058", "description": "practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [14, 1972], "span_label": ["14 CE", "1972 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 5}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "henan", "label": "Henan", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "acre-israel", "label": "Acre, Israel", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tyre-lebanon", "label": "Tyre, Lebanon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fortification", "label": "Fortification", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yangtze", "label": "Yangtze", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huai-river", "label": "Huai River", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 14, "year_label": "14 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Famine hits China; some citizens turn to cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#China", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 14 AD › China"}}, {"year": 177, "year_label": "177 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "The churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371305288#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 177", "revid": 1371305288, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Suiyang: A Tang garrison (7,000 men) under Zhang Xun defend their fortress against the rebel army at Suiyang. Zhang makes multiple attempts to get food from nearby fortresses, but this is refused. After a desperate 10-month siege, Suiyang is overrun by rebel forces who take the city. Because of famine an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 citizens are cannibalized, only 400 people are left.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#China", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 761, "year_label": "761 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "A great Chinese famine in the Huai-Yangtze area, late in the year, drives many people to cannibalism (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340847723#Asia", "title": "761", "revid": 1340847723, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 873, "year_label": "873 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Emperor Yi Zong (Li Cuī) dies after a 13-year reign. He is succeeded by his 11-year-old son Xi Zong, as ruler of the Tang Dynasty. During his reign, a widespread failure of the agricultural harvest leads to famine (which causes people to resort to cannibalism) and agrarian rebellions.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072669#China", "title": "873", "revid": 1267072669, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 1098, "year_label": "1098 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Siege of Ma'arra: The Crusaders capture the city of Ma'arra after a month's siege and massacre part of the population. Short of supplies, the army is accused of widespread cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163181#First_Crusade", "title": "1098", "revid": 1362163181, "section": "Events › By place › First Crusade"}}, {"year": 1190, "year_label": "1190 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Conrad of Montferrat sails south with a Crusader fleet (some 50 ships) from Tyre. As Conrad's fleet approaches the harbour of Acre, an equally sized Muslim fleet sorties out to meet the Crusaders in open battle. Eventually, the Ayyubid fleet is blockaded (supported by Danish and Pisan ships) in the port. Acre is again cut off from reinforcements; the city's supplies are exhausted, and the Muslim garrison has to resort to eating their own beasts. In the event, troops are driven to cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368650742#Third_Crusade", "title": "1190", "revid": 1368650742, "section": "Events › By place › Third Crusade"}}, {"year": 1528, "year_label": "1528 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "In Henan province, China, during the mid Ming dynasty, a vast drought deprives the region of harvests for the next two years, killing off half the people in some communities, due to starvation and cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369577446#Date_unknown", "title": "1528", "revid": 1369577446, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1531, "year_label": "1531 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "A severe drought in Henan province, China, coupled with a gigantic swarm of locusts in the summer, forces many in destitute agricultural communities to turn to cannibalism to avoid dying by starvation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359939156#Date_unknown", "title": "1531", "revid": 1359939156, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1551, "year_label": "1551 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "In Henan province, China, during the Ming dynasty, a severe frost in the spring destroys the winter wheat crop. Torrential rains in mid summer cause massive flooding of farmland and villages (by some accounts submerged in a metre of water). In the fall, a large tornado demolishes houses and flattens much of the buckwheat in the fields. Famine victims either flee, starve, or resort to cannibalism. This follows a series of natural disasters in Henan in the years 1528, 1531, 1539, and 1545.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783865#Date_unknown", "title": "1551", "revid": 1352783865, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 20", "text": "November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket, by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats. They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#October–December", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July", "text": "July – The Reverend Thomas Baker, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary (born in Playden, East Sussex, England) is cooked and eaten by Navatusila tribespeople at Nabutautau, Fiji, together with eight of his local followers, the only missionary in that country to suffer cannibalism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#July", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1884, "year_label": "1884 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens are convicted of murder in the survival cannibalism case of R v. Dudley and Stephens in the English courts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364372487#December", "title": "1884", "revid": 1364372487, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about 14000 ft m in the Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort to cannibalism to survive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#October", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › October"}}]}