The General Crisis
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The General Crisis is a term used by some historians to describe an alleged period of widespread regional conflict and instability that occurred from the early 17th century to the early 18th century i
The siege of Bautzen, during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) which devastated much of Europe, is one of the events some historians have associated with the alleged General Crisis.
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 General Crisis
…Trevor-Roper, but in 2013 he expanded the concept to argue there was a global General Crisis, exacerbated by the global climate change known as the "Little Ice Age". There were various controversies regarding the "general crisis" thesis between historians. Some simply denied the existence of any such crisis. For…
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