Let's talk about the 'worst year to be alive,' it's not this one - it's 536 CE! Of course, that's just a guess, but it's an educated guess because we know that there was a volcano that blotted out the sun - and THAT was the beginning of a mini-ice age that ushered in famine, mass migration, wars, and the plague!
Let's talk about the 'worst year to be alive,' it's not this one - it's 536 CE! Of course, that's just a guess, but it's an educated guess because we know that there was a volcano that blotted out the sun - and THAT was the beginning of a mini-ice age that ushered in famine, mass migration, wars, and the plague!
Some Sources
Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age (536 to around 660 CE)
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/072ba4aa-014e-4f87-8fc7-334ebf876f1f
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive'
https://www.science.org/content/article/why-536-was-worst-year-be-alive