Climate Apocalypse (TRIH ep 313)
1760 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook speak with historian Peter Frankopan about the long relationship between climate (and the wider natural world) and human history. Using examples from the Curse of Akkad (~2250 BC) through the Roman Warm Period, the Justinianic Plague (6th century), volcanic episodes such as Santorini and Tambora, the Little Ice Age and the Industrial Revolution, Frankopan argues that climate and environmental shifts have repeatedly reshaped societies — sometimes trigger...
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Around 1760
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- French Revolution (1789)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)