Drought in the autumn of 1776 dried out the fields and pushed up the price of rice; even well-off families went begging for work and the hungry turned to theft.
Natural disaster
Drought and famine of 1776 in the North
- 1776
- Southeast Asia
Meanwhile, elsewhere
- 1789 – 1799French RevolutionEurope
- 1792United States dollarNorth America
- 17th century – 19th centuryAge of EnlightenmentEurope
- 1775 – 1783American Revolutionary WarNorth America
- 4 July 1776United States Declaration of IndependenceNorth America
- 1765 – 1783American RevolutionNorth America
- 18th century – 19th centuryRomanticism
- 1754 – 1763French and Indian WarNorth America