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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. 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.

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

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    You wake up to a dark, dreary, glum-feeling, Monday-type of morning. For the 547th consecutive day. Just 18 months prior, you were a hard-working farmer gearing up for another bountiful crop season.

  6. Plague of Justinian - Wikipedia

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    A characteristic of Yersinia pestis infection is necrosis of the hand. (photo from 1975 plague victim) A map of the Byzantine Empire in 550 (a decade after the Plague of Justinian) with Justinian's conquests shown in green

  7. 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 .

  8. Dark Ages (historiography) - Wikipedia

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    [15] [18] Writing of the past, he said: "Amidst the errors there shone forth men of genius; no less keen were their eyes, although they were surrounded by darkness and dense gloom". [19] Christian writers, including Petrarch himself, [18] had long used traditional metaphors of 'light versus darkness' to describe 'good versus evil'.

  9. Fimbulwinter - Wikipedia

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    The mythology might be related to the volcanic winter of 536, which resulted in a notable drop in temperature across northern Europe. There have also been several popular ideas about whether the particular piece of mythology has a connection to the climate change that occurred in the Nordic countries at the end of the Nordic Bronze Age from ...