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People: Leo of Ohrid
Topic: Bengal Famine of 1769-73
Location: Bernaville Picardie France

Bengal Famine of 1769-73

Years: 1769 - 1773

The Bengal famine of 1770 leaves 15 million dead (one third of the population).

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)