The Year Without a Summer

The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year and Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death)^[1] because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.72–1.3 °F).^[2] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest on record between the years of 1766–2000.^[3] This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.^[4]

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