Great Famine of 1695–1697

The Great Famine of 1695–1697, or simply the Great Famine, was a catastrophic famine that affected the present-day Finland and Estonia (1695–1697), Latvia, Norway (in 1696) and Sweden (1696–1698), all of which then belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden with the exception of Norway. The areas worst affected were Finland and Norrland in Sweden proper.

The Great Famine of 1695–1697 was concurrent with the "Seven Ill Years", a period of national famine in Scotland in the 1690s.

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