Rice prices soared and the dead lay side by side in the capital and the four delta provinces; Trịnh Khải offered offices for donations and, when no one came forward, forced the rich to pay for relief.
Natural disaster
Famine of 1786 in the North
- 1786
- 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
- 30 April 1803Louisiana PurchaseNorth America
- 18th century – 19th centuryRomanticism