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People: Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
Topic: China: Famine of 1850-73
Location: Toledo > Tolentum Castilla-La Mancha Spain

China: Famine of 1850-73

Years: 1850 - 1873

From 1850–1873 as a result of Taiping Rebellion, drought, and famine, the population of China drops by over 60 million people.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)