Little Ice Age
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The Little Ice Age was a period of regional cooling, particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. It was not a true ice age of global extent. The term was introduced into scientific literatur
The last written records of the Norse Greenlanders are from a 1408 marriage at Hvalsey Church, which is now the best-preserved Norse ruin.
The Seine frozen, 3 January 1880. At the end of the 19th century, the climate was still colder than today.
March Across the Belts, 1658
Winter skating on the main canal of Pompenburg, Rotterdam in 1825, shortly before the minimum, by Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove
Great Famine of 1315–1317
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The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was the first of a series of large-scale crises that struck parts of Europe early in the 14th century. Most of Europe was affected. The famine caused widespread populatio
Little Ice Age
…1300 for when warm summers stopped being dependable in Northern Europe 1315 for when rains and the Great Famine of 1315–1317 occurred 1560 to 1630 for when the worldwide glacial expansion, known as the Grindelwald Fluctuation, began…
From the Apocalypse in a Biblia Pauperum, illuminated at Erfurt around the time of the Great Famine. Death sits astride a manticore whose long tail ends in a ball of flame (Hell). Famine points to her hungry mouth.