475 - 1816: The Year Without Summer

Do Go On

Here it is, the number one most voted for topic for Block 2024! On the evening of the 5th of April, 1815 the sounds of massive explosions rang out across modern day Indonesia. This lead to1816 becoming the year without summer!

This is a comedy/history podcast, the report about the murders begins at approximately 06:31 (though as always, we go off on tangents throughout the report).

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

The Year Without Summer: 1816 by William K Kingaman and Nicholas P Kingaman

theconversation.com/how-a-volcano-in-indonesia-led-to-the-creation-of-frankenstein

britannica.com/place/Mount-Tambora

theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/16/1816-year-without-summer-dark-masterpieces-beethoven-schubert-shelley

nps.gov/articles/000/1816-the-year-without-summer

history.com/news/bicycle-history-invention

historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2054

smithsonianmag.com/history/blast-from-the-past-65102374/

history.com/topics/inventions/history-of-cholera

irishtimes.com

english-heritage.org.uk

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