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  2. 536 - Wikipedia

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    Year 536 (Roman numerals: DXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Belisarius.. In 2018, medieval scholar Michael McCormick nominated 536 as "the worst year to be alive" because of the volcanic winter of 536 caused by a volcanic eruption early in the year, causing average temperatures in Europe and China to ...

  3. The 9 Worst Years in History to be Alive - AOL

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    World War II was the deadliest conflict in history, and 1945 was a particularly grim year as it marked the war's violent conclusion. This year witnessed the U.S. dropping two atomic bombs on Japan ...

  4. The Great Big Book of Horrible Things - Wikipedia

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    The paperback was published by W. W. Norton in May 2013 under the new title Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History. The British edition (Canongate Books, 20 October 2011) is entitled Atrocitology: Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements. It has been translated into Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish.

  5. List of epidemics and pandemics - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10 million new TB infections occur every year, and 1.5 million people die from it each year – making it the world's top infectious killer (before COVID-19 pandemic). [21] However, there is a lack of sources which describe major TB epidemics with definite time spans and death ...

  6. Volcanic winter of 536 - Wikipedia

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    The Book of the Later Han, which describes the “year of great cold” and the “famine that occurred in the summer”. The Zizhi Tongjian, a historical text that mentions the “great cold” and the “famine that occurred in the summer”. Nanshi 南史 "History of the South" describes "a yellow ash-like substance from the sky".

  7. Experts Say This is The #1 Worst Year in Human History - AOL

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  8. U.S. deaths in 2020 top 3 million, the most ever counted - AOL

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    But life expectancy for 2020 could end up dropping as much as three full years, said Robert Anderson of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC counted 2,854,838 U.S. deaths last ...

  9. 1942 - Wikipedia

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    The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million. However, the Correlates of War estimates that the prior year, 1941, was the deadliest such year. Death toll estimates for both 1941 and 1942 range from 2.28 to 7.71 million each.