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Regency Happenings: The Year Without Summer ~ 1816

Posted on December 31, 2013 by Regina Jeffers

The Year Without a Summer (also known as the Poverty Year, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death) was 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities resulted in major food shortages. Much of the cause of this anomaly is blamed on the … Continue reading →

Posted in British history, buildings and structures, Great Britain, Living in the Regency, real life tales, Regency era | Tagged Chichester Canal, famine, J.M.W. Turner, Napoleonic Wars, Tambora volcano, Waterloo, Year Without Summer | 1 Comment

1816: The Year Without Summer

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Regina Jeffers

A Year Without Summer: Benjamin Franklin was the first to establish the link between volcanic eruptions and climate change when he suggested the bitterly cold winter of 1783-84 in Europe was a result of the dust cloud from the massive … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Dalton Minimum, Jane Austen, Lord Byron, Mary and Percy Shelley, Mount Tambora, Napoleonic Wars, Regina Jeffers, The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy, the Luddites, volcanoes, Year Without Summer | 6 Comments

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Regency Happenings: The Year Without Summer ~ 1816

1816: The Year Without Summer

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