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What will happen in a year without summer?

The European continent just ended its war against Napoleon in 18 15. The sudden abnormal weather caused a wide range of food shortages, and food was robbed everywhere, especially in Switzerland. In Britain, a large number of livestock died in the winter of 18 16, and crops failed in Wales, Ireland and other places, leading to widespread famine. Many major rivers in Europe flooded in summer, and frost appeared in Germany and other places in August. It is estimated that about 200,000 people in Europe died from this abnormal weather. The typhoid epidemic from 18 16 to 18 19 in Southeast Europe and the Mediterranean Sea is also suspected to be related to temperature changes.

1865438+In July 2006, 19-year-old mary shelley went to the Swiss villa in Byron for a holiday, but he was caught in the continuous heavy rain and unusually low temperature, forcing everyone to stay indoors. In order to kill time, Byron decided to hold a competition and let everyone write the scariest story. As a result, mary shelley wrote the famous work Frankenstein, while Byron's personal doctor, John Polidoli, wrote the Vampire, the pioneering work of modern vampire novels. In China, there was a severe famine in Yunnan Province. 18 16 In the summer (the 21st year of Jiaqing), in August of the lunar calendar, the weather suddenly became as cold as winter. It snowed in Kunming and western Yunnan for three consecutive years in winter. In northeast Heilongjiang, the frost was severe in July of the lunar calendar, crops were not harvested, and Kenting fled. There are also records of snowfall in June and July of the lunar calendar in Anhui and Jiangxi. Rare frost was recorded in winter in Hsinchu, Miaoli and other places in Taiwan Province Province 18 16, and Hsinchu was "rainy and snowy in December, and the ice was hard enough".