The Year Summer Never Came
In 1816, people across Europe, North America, and parts of Asia waited for summer.
It never arrived.
Instead of warmth, snow fell in June.
Frost returned in July.
Rivers froze. Crops died in the fields. Livestock starved.
The year became known as “The Year Without a Summer.”
At the time, no one understood what was happening. The sun appeared dim. The skies were thick and gray. Temperatures dropped unexpectedly, destroying harvests and triggering one of the worst food crises of the 19th century.
In New England, farmers watched corn rot in the ground.
In Europe, grain prices surged, bread riots broke out, and mass hunger spread.
Thousands were forced to migrate in search of food.
The cause was invisible — and half a world away.
In April 1815, Mount Tambora, a massive volcano in what is now Indonesia, erupted in the largest volcanic explosion in recorded human history. The blast sent enormous quantities of ash and sulfur high into the atmosphere.
That ash spread across the globe.
It blocked sunlight, lowered global temperatures, and disrupted weather patterns for years. The effects peaked in 1816 — when summer simply failed.
No warning was given.
No explanation existed at the time.
People only knew that the world had suddenly turned cold.
History remembers it as The Year Summer Never Came.
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