Grand Famine reaches Russia
1315
The same cold wet weather that devastated western European harvests crippled Russian grain fields. Novgorod chronicles record bark-bread, infanticide, and cannibalism among desperate peasants. Entire villages starved. The coincidence of famine and Mongol tribute demands - the khans cared nothing for failed harvests - would feed the resentments that eventually loosened the Horde's grip on the Russian princes.
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Also in 1315 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.