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  2. Volcanic winter of 536 - Wikipedia

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    The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. [1] The volcanic winter was caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin, with several possible locations proposed in various continents.

  3. 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 ...

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

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    A.D. 536 – Volcanic Winter. Dubbed "the worst year to be alive" by Harvard historian Michael McCormick, the year 536 saw an inexplicable, dense fog that shrouded much of Europe, the Middle East ...

  5. Late Antique Little Ice Age - Wikipedia

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    The Late Antique Little Ice Age is seen between the middle of the 6th century and the start of the 7th century, and preceded by the Roman Warm Period. [1]The Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) was a long-lasting Northern Hemispheric cooling period in the 6th and 7th centuries AD, during the period known as Late Antiquity.

  6. When the skies went dark: Historians pinpoint the very 'worst ...

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    Some 1,500 years later, Harvard University medieval historian Michael McCormick has reached a similarly grim conclusion about not just 536, but the dreadful decade that followed that terrible year.

  7. 536 BC - Wikipedia

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    The year 536 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. In the Roman Empire , it was known as year 218 Ab urbe condita . The denomination 536 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

  8. List of large Holocene volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    Satellite images of the 15 January 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai. This is a list of volcanoes that have had large explosive eruptions during the Holocene (since about 11,650 years Before Present), with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 5 or higher, or a plume height of at least 30 km.

  9. Year Without a Summer - Wikipedia

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    1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere .