Skull Famine (1 janv. 1791 – 1 déc. 1792)
Description:
The Doji bara famine (also Skull famine) of 1791–92 in the Indian subcontinent was brought on by a major El Niño event lasting from 1789–1795 and producing prolonged droughts. Recorded by William Roxburgh, a surgeon with the British East India Company, in a series of pioneering meteorological observations, the El Niño event caused the failure of the South Asian monsoon for four consecutive years starting in 1789Ajouté au bande de temps:
Date:
1 janv. 1791
1 déc. 1792
~ 1 years and 11 months