Hatepe eruption of Taupō
New Zealand's biggest blast in 20,000 years, and no one saw it
Around AD 232 (±10 years) Taupō produced New Zealand's largest eruption in 20,000 years, scorching the land and reshaping its caldera lake. No human saw it: people would not reach these islands for another thousand years.
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The colossal Taupō eruption of around 232 struck a New Zealand with no people at all: Polynesians would arrive more than a thousand years later.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Middle East
- 224 Rise of the Sasanian Empire — 8 years earlier
Africa
- 249–262 Plague of Cyprian — 17 years later
Asia
- 220 Fall of the Han and the Three Kingdoms — 12 years earlier
Americas
- c. 250 Rise of the Classic Maya cities — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Zhuge Liang (aged 51)