Great Famine (Ireland)
1845–1852 famine in Ireland
8 dated entries naming Great Famine (Ireland), drawn from 7 separate years between 1845 CE and 1851 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
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19th century
- 1845September 9 – Potato blight breaks out in Ireland, beginning the Great Famine.source
- 1846The Great Famine continues in Ireland. The first deaths from hunger take place early in the year and Phytophthora infestans almost totally destroys the summer potato crop.source
- 1846May 15 – Under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Peel, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to repeal the Corn Laws by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the old colonial mercantile trade system with free trade in response to the Great Famine (Ireland). On June 25 the Duke of Wellington persuades the House of Lords to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February 1849. Peel, however, is forced to resign.source
- 1847The Great Famine continues in Ireland.source
- 1848Great Famine (Ireland) (1845–52).source
- 1849April 21 – Great Famine (Ireland): 96 inmates of the overcrowded Ballinrobe Union Workhouse died over the course of the preceding week from illness and other famine-related conditions, a record high.source
- 1850Ongoing – Great Famine (Ireland) subsides.source
- 1851Great Famine (Ireland), 1845–52.source