First-Hand Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History

[elkhound]

@Sourdough lots of details written down about a wide range of subject you ask about...like 300k dead in a city...also interestingly at start in one place all rent and taxes were suspended for everyone.

21 minutes

 

[DrHenley]

@Sourdough lots of details written down about a wide range of subject you ask about...like 300k dead in a city...also interestingly at start in one place all rent and taxes were suspended for everyone.

21 minutes

It happened again in 1816, which is called "The Year Without A Summer."

 

[Caribou]

@Sourdough lots of details written down about a wide range of subject you ask about...like 300k dead in a city...also interestingly at start in one place all rent and taxes were suspended for everyone.

21 minutes

The show repeatedly mentions the sun being blocked. Disease is always amongst us. I can’t help but wonder if the lack of vitamin D, along with the lack of food, didn’t increase the spread and virulence of the plague.

In the year without summer, Cholera was the opportunistic disease.

 

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First-Hand Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History​

I was young but do remember that year. It sucked.