Year Without a Summer

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The Year Without a Summer was the unusually cold, crop-failing year of 1816, marked by severe climate anomalies and widespread food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

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Label Occurrences
Year Without a Summer canonical 2
Year Without a Summer (1816) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf climatic anomaly
historical event
weather disaster
affectedArea Atlantic Canada
British Isles
China
France
Germany
India
New England
Switzerland
alsoKnownAs Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death
Poverty Year
The Year Without a Summer of 1816
hasCause Mount Tambora
surface form: 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora

reduced solar radiation reaching Earth’s surface
volcanic aerosols in the stratosphere
hasConsequence European food riots
agricultural crisis in Europe
changes in crop choices and farming practices
economic hardship for farmers
heightened awareness of climate variability
increased emigration from New England to the American Midwest
inspiration for literary works
malnutrition-related disease
hasLocation Asia
Europe
North America
Northern Hemisphere
influencedWork Lord Byron’s poem "Darkness"
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
surface form: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

development of the modern bicycle (as a response to horse feed shortages)
mainEffect crop failures
extreme weather events
famine in some regions
flooding
food shortages
frosts in summer months
grain price spikes
heavy rains
increased migration
livestock deaths
snowfall in summer months
social unrest
unusually cold temperatures
widespread hunger
partOf global climatic impacts of the 1815 Tambora eruption
significance major historical example of volcanic forcing of climate
one of the coldest Northern Hemisphere years of the 19th century
startTime 1816
temporalContext Little Ice Age
surface form: Little Ice Age (late phase)

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Mount Tambora causedEvent Year Without a Summer
Tambora village associatedEvent Year Without a Summer
Sanggar hasHistoricalPeriodSignificance Year Without a Summer
this entity surface form: Year Without a Summer (1816)