The European Potato Failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern Europe in the mid-1840s.

Conditions were worsened by the European Potato Failure due to potato blight that struck Northern Europe in the mid-1840s, leading to the period being called "the Hungry Forties."

Although initially almost eliminating the danger of famine, the resulting dependence on the potato eventually caused the European Potato Failure, a disastrous crop failure from disease resulting in widespread famine, and the death of over one million people in Ireland alone.

The time is also known as the Hungry Forties.

But it is not surprising that it first arose in what history has called 'the Hungry Forties'.

Known as the Hungry Forties, various problems affecting food production resulted in millions suffering from hunger all over Europe.

In the spring of 1841, during the Hungry Forties, fourteen children (about a quarter of all the village's children) died.

Her forebears had come over to Lancashire from Limerick in the Hungry Forties.

Conditions were worsened by the European Potato Failure due to potato blight that struck Northern Europe in the mid-1840s, leading to the period being called "the Hungry Forties."

Poe died at the end of a decade known, in Europe, as "the Hungry Forties," and he wasn't the only American to fall face down in the gutter during a seven-year-long depression brought on by a credit collapse.

Along the length of the edge is a stone wall of some importance - the boundary was built in 1841 as a relief measure to provide respite from the Hungry Forties, and is the Parliamentary Division boundary between Chorley and Blackburn.