Agricultural failures
900-1800
"Before modern times agriculturally and demographically ... the most important limitations on population growth were the Malthusian ones, hunger, pestilence, war, which enforced 'moral restraint'."
Crosby, p. 150.
| Century |
#
of famines
|
dates
|
| tenth |
10
|
901-1000
|
| eleventh |
26
|
1001-1100
|
| twelfth |
2
|
1101-1200
|
| fourteenth |
4
|
1301-1400
|
| fifteenth |
7
|
1401-1500
|
| sixteenth |
13
|
1501-1600
|
| seventeenth |
11
|
1601-1700
|
| eighteenth |
16
|
1701-1800
|
The average number of famines in Europe according to this estimate * is better than ten per century.
*
18th century estimate
