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536 AD
According to medieval historian Michael McCormick, 536 AD was ‘the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year.’ Falling in the time known as the 'Dark Ages, the year 536 AD fully embraced this moniker as Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Asia were plunged into 24-hour darkness for 18 months. Summer temperatures plummeted between 1.5-2.5°C causing crops to fail and millions to starve to death.
The cause? A volcanic eruption in Iceland spread ash across the Northern Hemisphere, blocking out the sunlight for over a year. The event kick-started a decade of misery for mankind as two further volcanic eruptions followed in the 540s leading to the coldest decade on record for the past 2,300 years. It created the ideal conditions for the ‘Justinian’ bubonic plague, the first plague pandemic, to spread across the Mediterranean leading to an estimated 25-50 million deaths, between 35-55% of the population, which also aided the collapse of the eastern Roman Empire.
1347/8/9
Arguably any one of the years between 1347-1349 could make this list as the infamous 'Black Death' bubonic plague was at its peak, ravishing most of Eurasia and parts of North Africa. It has the title of the deadliest pandemic in human history with estimates ranging wildly from 25-200 million people killed, an estimation of around 30 - 60% of Europe’s entire population at the time - one of the greatest human catastrophes in history.

Beginning in the Far East, the plague arrived on European shores via the arrival of 12 so-called 'Death Ships'. After they docked at the Sicilian port of Messina in late 1347, bystanders were shocked to discover most sailors were either dead or dying from a mysterious disease. From there, the Black Death spread across an ill-prepared Europe causing fear and misery as it went. Many believed the plague was divine punishment leading to purges of those thought to be heretics. Jews were also falsely blamed for the outbreak leading to massacres across the continent.

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