Wednesday Regency: How an Eruption Changed the World

[image error] If you've ever heard about the Year without a Summer, the eruption of Mount Tambora on April 15, 1815 was the cause. The eruption killed nearly 100,000 people (initial blast, tsunamis, and starvation from the destruction) and cause massive weather disruptions for the next 2 years, though it wasn't understood why that happened until much later. The later eruption of Krakota is more widely known because of the advances in world-wide media coverage.

The weather in 1816 was bizarre. Spring ca...