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Genealogy
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& Pandemics > Other Crisis
Other Crisis
Various crisis - other than local epidemics
or larger pandemic - had a significant impact
on our ancestors. Here are several that I've been able to find.
| Period |
Location |
Crisis |
Notes |
| 1296-1306 |
England & Scotland |
1st War of Scottish Independence |
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| 1304 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1305 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1310 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1315-1317 |
Northern Europe |
Famine |
Widespread crop failures led to the deaths of millions,
an increase in crime, and disease. |
| 1321 |
England |
Famine |
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| 1330-1334 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1332-1357 |
England & Scotland |
2nd War of Scottish Independence |
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| 1337 |
France & England |
Hundred
Years War Begins |
War between England and France. |
| 1349-1351 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1350 |
Northern Hemisphere |
Medieval
Warm Period Ends |
Generally agreed period when the warm period from the 10th
to 14th centuries was officially over. |
| 1351 |
England |
Famine |
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| 1358-1361 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1369 |
England |
Famine |
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| 1371 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1374-1375 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1390 |
France |
Famine |
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| 1453 |
France & England |
Hundred Years War Ends |
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| 1455-1485 |
England |
Wars of the Roses |
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| 1550 |
Northern Hemisphere |
Little
Ice Age Begins |
Generally agreed period when the cooling trend was in full
swing. |
| 1618-1648 |
Germany (mostly) |
30 Years' War |
Cause of many Germans immigrating to the western hemisphere |
| 1641 |
Ireland |
Irish Rebellion |
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| 1642-1646 |
England |
Civil
War
(part 1) |
Charles I against Parliament. |
| 1648-1649 |
England |
Civil War
(part 2)
|
Ends with beheading of Charles I. |
| 1675-1676 |
New England |
King Philip's War |
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| 1701-1704 |
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War of Spanish Succession |
Called "Queen
Anne's War" in North America, it was the 2nd
of the "French & Indian Wars". |
| 1720 |
England |
Stock Market Crash |
Stock market lost about 98% of its value. |
| 1743 |
Europe |
War of Austrian Succession |
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| 1775-1783 |
North America |
American War of Independence |
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| 1779 |
Egypt |
Battle of the Nile |
Napolean in Egypt |
| 1812-1814 |
United States & Canada |
War of 1812 |
British-American War |
| 1845-1850 |
Ireland |
Potato Famine |
A fungus infected the potato crop, the mainstay
of the diet of the lower classes at that time.
While the major famine occurred in a 5 year span, Ireland continued to
suffer from the same blight for 47 years. |
| 1850 |
Northern Hemisphere |
Little Ice Age Ends |
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| 1861-1865 |
United States |
War of the Rebellion |
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| 1898 |
Cuba |
Spanish-American War |
Over 5,000 soldiers died of Yellow
Fever but only 968 died due to battle.
This epidemic, however,
taught doctors how this disease spread... using volunteers. |
| 1899-1902 |
Philippines |
Philippine-American War |
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| 1914-1918 |
World Wide |
World War I |
This war goes by different names in different
countries, based on their view.
Some US Army training camps suffered 80% death rate at the
high-point of the Spanish Influenza
epidemic. |
| 1939-1945 |
World Wide |
World War II |
This war goes by different names
in different countries, based on their view.
Tens of millions died and millions more were forced to flee
or were left without homes. |
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