Comparable Events
- Toba catastrophe 70,000 to 75,000 years ago.
- The 1628–26 BC climate disturbances, usually attributed to the Minoan eruption of Santorini.
- The Hekla 3 eruption of about 1200 BC, contemporary with the historical bronze age collapse.
- The Hatepe eruption (sometimes referred to as the Taupo eruption), around the year 180 CE.
- Climate changes of 535–536 CE have been linked to the effects of a volcanic eruption, possibly at Krakatoa.
- An eruption of Kuwae, a Pacific volcano, has been implicated in events surrounding the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
- An eruption of Huaynaputina, in Peru, caused 1601 to be the coldest year in the Northern Hemisphere for six centuries (see Russian famine of 1601–1603).
- An eruption of Laki, in Iceland, caused thousands of fatalities in Europe, 1783–84.
- The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 led to odd weather patterns and temporary cooling in the United States, particularly in the Midwest and parts of the Northeast. An unusually mild winter and a warm, early spring were followed by an unusually cool, wet summer and a cold, early autumn in 1992.
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