Home › Entities › famine › Great Bengal famine of 1770

Great Bengal famine of 1770

famine affecting lower regions of India in 1770
Event famine Q2477522
Great Bengal famine of 1770
Unknown artistUnknown artist · Public Domain · Wikimedia
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

Great Bengal famine of 1770

Summary

Great Bengal famine of 1770 is a famine[1]. It draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (famine category, ranking #11 of 66).[2]

Key Facts

  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's image is recorded as Distressed Natives Going to the Relief Works - The Graphic 1874.jpg[3].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's instance of is recorded as famine[4].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's location is recorded as Bengal[5].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's start time is recorded as +1767-00-00T00:00:00Z[6].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's end time is recorded as +1773-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 23.9888, 'lon': 88.7311}[8].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07pqv9[9].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+7000000'}[10].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+10000000'}[11].
  • Great Bengal famine of 1770's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[12].

Why It Matters

Great Bengal famine of 1770 draws 551 Wikipedia views per month (famine category, ranking #11 of 66).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Great Bengal famine of 1770. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/great-bengal-famine-of-1770
MLA “Great Bengal famine of 1770.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/great-bengal-famine-of-1770.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_great-bengal-famine-of-1770_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Great Bengal famine of 1770}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/great-bengal-famine-of-1770}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): Great Bengal famine of 1770 — https://4ort.xyz/entity/great-bengal-famine-of-1770 (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/great-bengal-famine-of-1770 · Last refreshed: