18 16 is called a year without summer. Affected by the eruption of 18 15 Tambora volcano in Indonesia, the temperature in the northern hemisphere generally plummeted. This volcanic eruption is one of the biggest volcanic eruptions in human history, making 18 16 the coldest year in the northern hemisphere in the following 1400 years. Asia, Europe and North America in the northern hemisphere are widely affected. People living here, from high officials and dignitaries to vendors, have been affected by this weather change.
The historical book 18 16, The Year Without Summer, written by the historian William K. Klingemann and the meteorologist Nicholas P. Klingemann, focuses on this extremely unusual year. If human history is only a negligible moment, then 18 16 can definitely be regarded as the most unique moment.
Sudden drop in temperature, crop failure and different degrees of famine are common problems faced by all parts of the northern hemisphere. When people are hungry, they will "think about change when they are poor." In Europe, the sudden change of climate has brought people different beliefs, some tend to science-even young science at that time can't give a correct explanation for climate change, and some tend to religion or witchcraft. For example, some people think that this is a warning from God, while others think that witches are at work, and they exert powerful magic on the weather. Of course, history finally proved that religion and witchcraft finally gave way to science.
Driven by the cold, the newly founded United States turned its attention to Canada. President Madison said that we must defeat Canada, or we will have to live in the south, which led to the domino effect. With the failure to capture Canada, Americans gradually turned their attention to the fertile fields in the west, thus contributing to the westward movement that lasted for many years.
In the case of sudden change of weather, it may be a sign of relative maturity for a country and a government to maintain a relatively stable political situation and implement timely relief policies for farmers who fail to harvest, while China has done a good job in 18 16. Fortunately, China was in the 21st year of Jiaqing at that time, the rule of the Qing court was fairly stable, and the cold current of 18 16 did not last until the middle of next year, so there was no large-scale social unrest in China.
I am more concerned about the influence of 18 16 cold climate on literature. In this environment, literature is a flowering tree in the rock, which is particularly gorgeous. For example, Byron and Shelley were lovers at this time, and their poetic skills reached the peak in the process of learning from each other. The cold weather directly gave birth to the famous work Frankenstein, and vampire literature began at this time. ...