Throughout history, supercurious things have happened, such as the year in which in many parts of the world borealis were seen, even in unusual places.
Today, we will talk about a particular year in which there was no summer in the northern hemisphere of the Earth, and the winter lasted at least a year and a half.Keep reading and find out about this interesting story that, according to some, even had another type of consequences, beyond the weather and famines.
The longest winter year: 1816
This long winter was the product of three factors.The first, the end of the Little Ice Age, a cold period that ran from the beginning of the fourteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century; the second, a historical drop in solar activity, known as “Dalton's Minimum,” and the third, and most important, was the eruption of Mount Tambora of 1815 .
This volcano forms the Sanggar Peninsula, north of Sumbawa Island, east of Java.After three years of progressive activity, on April 5, 1815 he made the first eruption, which lasted 33 hours and a column of ashes and smoke that reached 33 kilometers high.
However, no one left the site, despite the strange noises that came from Tambora, which came to be heard more than 1,000 kilometers away.Java, in the city of Yogyakarta, thought that they were canonazos, and troops were mobilized preventing some attack, until the fall of ashes convinced them that it was not a war.
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