Crop Failures facts

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1816 was called "The Year Without a Summer" after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in "The Book of Mormon," the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote "Frankenstein."

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1816 was called the year without a summer. From May to August of that year there were frequent frosts and snowfalls causing widespread crop failure and a food crisis.

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1. Concerns are increasing that Campi Flegrei - a "supervolcano" very close to the Italian city of Naples - could erupt again for the first time since 1538. Previous eruptions have triggered volcanic winters globally, causing widespread crop failures and resulting in famines.

2. Laki is one of the deadliest volcanoes in the world. It erupted in 1783 which caused famine and killed 25% of Iceland’s population, it also caused a drop in global temperature which resulted in crop failures in Europe and droughts in India. It estimated to kill over 6 million people globally.

3. The grave site of Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, who popularised the Potato in France to alleviate wheat crop failures, is surrounded Potato plants in honour of his work

4. One of the reasons early bicycle concepts were developed in the early 1800s was to ease dependence on horses, which were suffering from mass starvation due to crop failures caused by the eruption of Tambora.

5. the pathogen that caused the Irish potato crop failure, resulting in the death or displacement of over a quarter of the total Irish population (compounded by the British Empire), originated in Mexico

6. In 1874 Laura's family moved to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where they stayed for two years until crop failure forced another move, to Burr Oak, Iowa.

7. There was a strange weather event in 535 AD that caused unseasonal weather, crop failures, and famines worldwide

8. "The Year Without a Summer" - a worldwide phenomenon in 1816 that caused crop failures and famines in multiple continents.

9. There was a dam failure in Banqiao China That killed 9,600 people instantly and subsequently led to the death of 171,000 people due to crop loss that started a famine.