On July 29–30, 1816, a violent storm occurred near Cape Town, South Africa, which brought forceful northerly winds and hail and caused severe damage to shipping.

1816 (MDCCCXVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1816th year of the Common Era (CE) and …

Jun 6, 2014 · The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June and every month of the year had a hard frost. …

Historical events from year 1816. Learn about 45 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1816 or search by date or keyword.

1816 was known as 'the year without a summer' in North America and elsewhere, with widespread unseasonal weather and crop failures. [5] The Second Bank of the United States …

Jan 16, 2024 · Referred to by many names, including “the poverty year” and “eighteen hundred and froze-to-death,” the year 1816 was literally a year without a summer across much of the …

Apr 4, 2023 · 1816, also known as the ‘Year Without Summer,’ ‘Poverty Year,’ and ‘Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death.’ The eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815 triggered a …

Mar 24, 2018 · The Year Without a Summer, a peculiar 19th-century disaster, played out during 1816 when the weather in Europe and North America took a bizarre turn that resulted in …

Mar 5, 2025 · Experience 1816: "the year without a summer", when volcanic ash turned skies gray, crops failed, and innovation emerged amidst climate chaos.

Aug 19, 2015 · In the summer of 1816, the Northern Hemisphere was plagued by a weather disruption of seemingly biblical proportions.