There are years when humanity suffers greatly due to natural disasters, wars, or other grim events. Here's an example.
10. Year 536: This 6th century really makes humans suffer. There was severe darkness in Europe due to a volcanic eruption in Iceland. The eruption was so large and had an impact on the global climate, making it difficult for food crops to grow. As a result, hunger is everywhere. "The light of the Sun is without its rays, like the Moon all year round," wrote historical records from the Byzantine era. Another impact is the decrease in temperature to 2.7 degrees Celsius.
9. 1945: World War 2 was truly one of the darkest and deadliest times in human history. The conflict involving so many countries is estimated to have killed 70 to 85 million people or 3% of the world's population at that time. There was a terrible Holocaust massacre until the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Japan.
8. 1816: Historians say there will be no summer this year due to a drop in global temperature of up to 0.7 degrees Celsius following the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia the previous year, blanketing the planet in ash. There was extreme winter and crop failure. Many famines lead to death.
7. 1918: This year, World War 1 began to end. But began the Spanish Flu disaster which eventually infected 500 million people worldwide. The virus attacks the immune system and many young people die. It is estimated that the victims reached 25 to 50 million people.
6. 1929: This year, the United States stock market crashed after the British stock market experienced the same thing. Many banks collapsed and customer money disappeared. Then there was a tremendous economic crisis. Poverty is rampant, unemployment is everywhere and people are starving.
5. 541: This year, Justinian's terrible bubonic plague appeared in Europe and Russia. This disease is said to last hundreds of years and is highly contagious. It's hard to count how many died, but the population in Constantinople has halved. Between five and ten thousand people die per day up to millions of people in total died from the plague.
4. 1783: This year, Iceland's Laki volcano erupts violently. The eruption did not subside until eight months later. The ash goes into the atmosphere and makes the climate change. Iceland was hit by a severe famine in which a quarter of the population died. The seasons in Africa and Asia also change and there, there is also famine.
3. 1520: In this year, European explorers brought smallpox to Native Americans. Because they do not have immunity, about 95% of the residents died. Some even estimate that 20 million people died.
2. 1347: The plague of the Black Death or black death is indeed very terrible, first identified this year. Thought to have originated in Asia, the Black Death made the population in Europe drop drastically because this disease was highly contagious and deadly. This outbreak was recorded as one of the most fatal in history, some even estimate 200 million people died.
1. 73 Thousand B.C.: A cataclysmic natural disaster, scientists say, occurred this year in what is now Lake Toba. Massive volcanic eruptions are estimated to have killed a large human population at that time. There was a prolonged winter following the eruption, and some even believe the human population lived in the tens of thousands of people at that time.
