Great Famine ends in northern Europe
1322
After seven years of waterlogged harvests, epidemic cattle plague, and desperate hunger, the rains finally relented. Northern Europe had lost perhaps ten percent of its population. The survivors faced a landscape of abandoned villages and traumatized communities. A generation later, the Black Death would find a continent already weakened by memory.
In context
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.