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
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)