Which infamous disaster took place during Peel's tenure as prime minister?
The Great Fire of London
The Battle of the Somme
Victorian Gold Rush
The Great Irish Famine
Answer
The Great Irish Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, was a catastrophic period of starvation that devastated Ireland from 1845 to 1852. This calamitous event, coinciding with Sir Robert Peel's tenure as Prime Minister, resulted from a combination of factors, including successive years of potato crop failure due to a disease known as potato blight, political and economic policies, and a lack of effective government response.
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