Potato Famine 1845 (1 ene 1845 año – 1 ene 1849 año)

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The Potato Famine of 1845 in Europe was the catastrophic failure of the potato crop leading to the deaths of nearly a million people due to starvation and disease. The crop failures were caused by late blight, a disease that destroys the edible tubers of the potato plant. This famine was one of the worst to occur in Europe in the nineteenth century with over a million people emigrating to the United States.

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