The Year Without a Summer
1816 · Event
Tambora's ash chills the globe — crops fail from New England to China, Europe goes hungry, and a wet Geneva summer births Frankenstein.
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Around 1816
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Latin American wars of independence (1808)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)