Year Without a Summer

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1816 · Geneva · Europe · Nature

July snow, failed harvests — and the birth of Frankenstein

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After Tambora, snow fell in New England in summer 1816 and harvests failed across Europe, bringing famine. Kept indoors by storms at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva, Mary Shelley and Lord Byron held a ghost-story contest that gave birth to Frankenstein.

State: Kingdom of Sardinia

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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)

Eastern Europe & Russia

1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 4 years earlier

Middle East

1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 12 years later
1839 The Edict of Gülhane opens the Tanzimat — 23 years later
1839–1842 First Anglo-Afghan War — 23 years later

Africa

1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 18 years earlier
1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 12 years earlier
1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 11 years earlier
c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 19 years later

Asia

1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 1 year earlier
1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 1 year later
1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 3 years later
c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 15 years later
1839–1842 First Opium War — 23 years later

Americas

1803 Louisiana Purchase — 13 years earlier
1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 6 years earlier
1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 1 year later
1822 Independence of Brazil — 6 years later
1835 Darwin in the Galápagos — 19 years later

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