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The most famous theory of the end of the world is the Mayan prophecy. However, on December 21, 2012, the end of the world predicted by the Mayans, it was very peaceful, and there was nothing unusual on that day.
Because in Mayan prophecy, the end of the world represents the end of mankind, and a devastating cataclysm will occur on the earth. Clearly, the 2012 prophecy did not come true.
In addition to the Maya's enthusiasm for exploring the end of the world, a great scientist, Hawking, based on scientific conjecture, also made the doomsday prediction of the extinction of human beings in 2600 years.
Whether it is based on scientific conjecture or mystical doomsday predictions, it is nothing more than to arouse fear in people's hearts and provide conversation after tea.
What many people don't know is that in the history of the world, mankind has really approached the "doomsday" moment. That happened in 1816, when the Northern Hemisphere as a whole snowed in June, frozen in July, and snowed heavily in August.
According to historical records, 200,000 people were frozen to death in Europe alone, not counting the sharp decline in land harvests due to climate cooling, and people who died of indirect starvation.
That year, everyone felt unprecedented fear and despair over the anomaly of the climate. The snowy days and the frost in June are often described in China as deeply grievances, and God is angry about it. The most deeply rooted in people's hearts is the narrative of Dou E's grievances in the literary work "Dou E'e".
However, "June Flying Frost", which was originally only performed in opera, actually happened in 1816. 1816 coincided with the 21st anniversary of the Qing Dynasty in China. In June and July and August of that year, the abnormal cold and frost for three consecutive months put everyone in danger, and it was rumored that there must be a major unjust case in the imperial court.
This made the Jiaqing Emperor very troubled, and once wanted to punish himself.
In those years, there were almost no sunny days in Zhejiang, China, and heavy snowstorms fell frequently in July and August in the Jianghuai region, and even Yunnan, which had a pleasant climate, experienced rare famine due to frost.
Many places experienced very terrible natural disasters at the same time, with large numbers of crops freezing to death in the fields, people seeking refuge and starvation, and along with abnormal weather, a nationwide famine swept through.
The Qing government, in the face of such large-scale natural disasters, was unable to protect the safety of the people. As a result, there were all kinds of horrific tragedies. The "Deng Chuan County Record" recorded: "The twenty-first year of Jiaqing was a great hunger, the road was dead, the people were hungry, and they were hungry for thousands of miles. ”
The Qing Dynasty poet Li Yuyang wrote in "Selling Sons and Sighs": "Where does the poor get their bare money, and they take men and women to sell it on the street." Knowing that it was difficult to sell children to save hunger, they endured being recorded by ghosts at the same time..."At that time, the people knew that selling children could only save the temporary difficulty, but the reality of hunger and cold was that they could only sell children for stutters and live a few more days.
Compared with China, the disaster situation in other parts of the world is also very serious, and natural and man-made disasters have occurred all over the world. According to data from all over the world in 1816, the weather in the northern hemisphere has been seriously abnormal, Europe, North America, Asia has a miracle of summer frost, 1816 is called by historians as the "year without summer", the temperature of the entire northern hemisphere dropped by 3 °C.
In July and August 1816, due to the freezing of a large number of livestock, there was a great famine in Ireland, Wales and other places in Europe, and riots broke out in Switzerland due to food grabbing. Canada and the northern United States were the hardest hit, with a direct snowstorm in June, and large numbers of unsuspecting people were frozen to death in their homes.
So what exactly caused such bizarre weather in 1816? After research and research by meteorological experts, the final conclusion was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 1815.
For four months from April to July 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia continued to erupt, spewing a total of 140 billion tons of magma and 1.7 million tons of volcanic ash, releasing energy equivalent to 50,000 times the atomic explosion of Hiroshima, which was also the most violent and terrible volcanic eruption known in human history, and magma directly caused 60,000 deaths.
Meteorological experts have concluded that volcanic eruptions release a large amount of water vapor, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, fluorine and chlorine, etc., which collide and fuse in the atmosphere to form sols that block sunlight, making it difficult for solar heat to reach the earth, so the following year in 1816 it entered the "doomsday" mode.