535 ⟶ Possible Volcanic Eruption and Resulting Climate Anomaly

Postulated volcanic eruption in the tropics which causes sev...

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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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❄️ Global Cooling and Crop Failures

Year Without a Summer: Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere, likely influenced by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.⟶