Great Famine of 1695–1697

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