The year 2020, has changed the face of life and living for everyone, refining standards and introducing a new normal, and we all know why.
For millennials, it should be the worst time been alive, and maybe in history too because, at no other age or time has information sharing made the world such a global village – but alas, it’s not.
History tells us of:
The Black Death of the year 1349, that killed half the population of Europe.
The Smallpox of 1520, that heartlessly decimated the Americas and took away between 60 and 90 per cent of the continents’ foundational resides.
The Spanish Flu of 1918, that led the massive deaths of over 60 million people.
The rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933 that led to the estimated deaths of about 28.7 million soldiers, civilians and prisoners of war.
536AD – is generally accepted as the worst year in history. About that year, the Byzantine historian Procopius writes –
“For the sun gave forth its light without brightness, like the moon, during the whole year”
The Irish chronicles account states thus – “a failure of bread from the years 536–539.”
The cause was a mysterious cloud that took over the Middle East, parts of Asia and Europe, plunging them into darkness, days and nights for 18 straight months.
“It was the beginning of one of the worst periods to be alive, if not the worst year,” says McCormick, a historian and archaeologist reports.
Temperatures that summer fell to 1.5°C to 2.5°C, initiating the coldest decade yet known. Crops died, and hunger ravished the lands
The cause?
Scientist, Researchers and glaciologist have of recent agreed that the root cause was a massive volcanic eruption that happened in Iceland early on that year 536, which led to huge amounts of ash being spread across the Northern Hemisphere. This created the mysterious fog that cast the world into darkness.
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