Year 536: What historians & scientists are calling the ‘worst year to be alive’

The year 536 saw the start of a period with one or more volcanic eurptions, plague, mass famine and an endless winter. Still thinking 2020 was bad?

2ser Breakfast was joined by Miles Pattenden, senior researcher of Medieval Studies from the Australian Catholic University, to ta   lk about the events which took place in 536 and its catastrophic aftermath.

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