1750 ⟶ Height of the Little Ice Age's Impact
Peak of the Little Ice Age.
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🌋 Hekla 3 Eruption Causes Climatic Cooling
the Hekla 3 eruption triggers an 18-year period of climatic cooling.⟶
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🌋 Possible Volcanic Eruption and Resulting Climate Anomaly
Postulated volcanic eruption in the tropics which causes several years of abnormally cold weather, resulting in mass famine in the Northern Hemisphere. (See Extreme weather events of 535–536.)This Buddhist stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.⟶
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🧊 Height of the Little Ice Age's Impact
Peak of the Little Ice Age.⟶
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🧊 Little Ice Age Concludes
The Little Ice Age ends around this time.⟶
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