When did the “Year without a Summer” occur and what caused it?
The Year Without a Summer, also known as the Poverty Year, The Year There Was No Summer or Eighteen hundred and froze to death, was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities destroyed crops in Northern Europe, the American Northeast and eastern Canada. Historian John D. Post has called this “the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world”. It appears to have been caused by a volcanic winter.
