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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nPlagues and Disease<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In 1347, the Black Plague arrived<\/a> on twelve ships at a port in Messina, Italy. The people near the docks at the time were shocked by what they saw. The sailors succumbed to a disease that caused black boils to appear on their bodies. The Italian authorities tried to get the ships out of the harbor as quickly as possible. However, the Bubonic Plague had already started to spread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Rats and fleas infected with the Bubonic Plague would cause unprecedented destruction to one continent. Unfortunately, the people in Europe weren\u2019t sure what caused the plague, and panic spread quickly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Records indicate that healthy people would go to bed at night, and loved ones would find them dead in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, over 20 million people would succumb to this disease, knocking out about half of Europe\u2019s population before the pandemic ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1918, the Spanish Flu made it’s way worldwide, and nobody knows where it started. This Flu started with mild symptoms, such as chills and fever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, within a few months, a new strain of infection caused people\u2019s lungs to fill with fluids, suffocating over 50 million people across the planet. This Flu largely impacted countries in the Northern Hemisphere before it traveled around the rest of the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1815, Mount Tambora, a supervolcano in Indonesia, erupted. This eruption was the cause of climate change for at least three years afterward due to the gases trapped in the stratosphere. The ash from the volcano spread across the sky, giving the following year the nickname \u201cthe year without summer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n There were such extreme natural disasters that occurred during this time, such as flooding, drought, and wildfires, that people thought it was the end of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This eruption caused a significant chain of events that made this the start of one of the worst historical periods. Without sunlight, rampant crop failure across the Northern Hemisphere led to mass starvation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Historians believe this eruption caused the death of somewhere between 100,000 and millions of people because climate change allowed a cholera pandemic to infect the people already weakened from starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some people believe that 1939 was the worst year in the history of humans, the middle of the Holocaust and World War II<\/a>. Adolf Hitler<\/a>, successfully convinced his followers that the European Jews needed to be removed from society and that they were the cause of so many terrible things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This belief caused several large concentration camps, where so many innocent Jewish people were sent to be tortured and killed, to erupt near railways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Germany and its leaders systematically eradicated approximately 6 million Jewish people and caused the beginning of the second world war. While some countries supported Germany, Great Britain, and France were among the first to declare war over an invasion of Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This war impacted over 50 nations across the planet and resulted in the death of about 50 million people. Nuclear bombs were also deployed for the first time in history, causing excessive devastation to soldiers and civilian populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\nNatural Disasters<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Human Terrorists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
536: The Worst Year in History<\/h2>\n\n\n\n