Agricultural failures – 900 to 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
