Timeline starting 5th Century BC. 1702–1704 famine in Deccan <https://mail.google.com/wiki/Deccan>, India, killed 2 million people 1738–1756 famine in West Africa <https://mail.google.com/wiki/West_Africa>, half the population of Timbuktu <https://mail.google.com/wiki/Timbuktu> died of starvation Four famines – in 1810, 1811, 1846, and 1849 – in China claimed nearly 45 million lives And Kenya shows up as 2009- ( 10 million Kenyans face starvation, was this famine threat lifted? ) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines