Incidents of cannibalism

thumb|upright=1.35|Two men and a child, all dead from starvation during the Russian famine of 1921–1922 A famine is a widespread scarcity of food caused by several possible factors, including, but not limited to: war, natural disasters, crop failure, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every inhabited continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history. During the 19th and 20th centuries, Southeast and South Asia, a

The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

8 September 1941 – 27 January 1944 blockade of Leningrad by the Axis

Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, also known as the Milwaukee Cannibal or the Milwaukee Monster, was an American serial killer and sex offender who killed and dismembered seventeen men and boys between 1978 and 1991.

fort and town established in the Virginia Colony

thumb|300px|Tantalus on an Apulian red-figure volute krater, 330-320 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen.

period of widespread famine in the People's Republic of China between the years 1959 and 1961 during the Great Leap Forward

thumb|The Farnese Atreus (1574 engraving by Antonio Lafreri and [[Cornelis Cort) depicts Atreus and one of the sons of Thyestes, whom Atreus is about to kill]]

genocide of as many as 3,000,000 Cambodians by communist Khmer Rogue in 1975–79

painting by Théodore Géricault

717-718 combined land and sea offensive by the Arabs of the Umayyad Caliphate against the capital city of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople

famine in 14th century medieval Europe

410 Visigoth siege and looting of Rome

aviation accident

1845 British expedition of Arctic exploration

insurrection and its outcome in French Revolution

Japanese war crimes of World War II

group of American pioneers who cannibalized their own family members in order to survive

1808 battle during the Peninsular War

island in Nunavut, Canada

1098 battle of the First Crusade

1346-1347 siege by King Edward III during the Hundred Years' War

431 BCE battle

settlement located in the Ruzhin Raion in Ukraine

county

Soviet-era prison island event

American whaleship from Nantucket, Massachusetts

atrocities perpetrated in the Congo Free State (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo) which, at the time, was a colony under the personal rule of King Leopold II of Belgium

1810 Pallas-class frigate

Letter sent by serial killer Jack the Ripper

Atrocity in the Pacific Theater of World War II

series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–70

9th-century siege in Sicily

cave of Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England, UK

former Qin emperor

general of the Chinese Tang Dynasty

World War II death marches

134–133 BCE siege

1966–76 massacre in China during the Cultural Revolution

1590 diege of the French Wars of Religion

slave labor camp in North Korea

thumb|300px|A map of northern Roman Britain and the land between [[Hadrian's Wall and the Antonine Wall.]]

leading English criminal case

polar expedition

14th century French tax revolt

cannibalistic attack on a person

2001 ethnic conflict in Indonesia

1581 siege

photograph by Alice Seeley

famine in the Deccan Plateau and Gujarat during the Mughal Empire

502–503 siege

genocide of Mbuti and other Pygmy tribes by the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo in North Kivu

Death of a Canadian man who was riding a bus

1809 massacre

18th-century uprising in China

event that took place on 11 or 12 November 1961 when thirteen Italian airmen, members of the United Nations Operation in the Congo (ONUC) were murdered

famine in northern Europe

archaeological site in South Carolina, United States

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2025 killing in Vietnam