Great Bengal Famine (18 sept 1769 año – 1 agos 1770 año)

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Major damage to the northern Bengal area- huge amounts of death (range of estimates from 5% to 1/3rd of the population dead) from starvation in combination with a smallpox epidemic. Start of unrest in India under the rule of the East India Company as they appeared to only care about the loss in profits and hardly provided relief.

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