[blam]

"In 1816, the weather in Europe was so cold that it was a "year without a summer" and crops and fruit did not ripen."

Eighteen Hundred And Froze To Death (The Infamous 'Year Without Summer')

[Verginius Rufus]

Thanks for the link to the earlier discussion.

I misspelled the name: it should be Mount Tambora.

According to William K. Klingaman and Nicholas P. Klingaman, The Year without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano that Darkened the World and Changed History (2013), the eruption of Mt. Tambora was 10 times stronger than Krakatoa (1883) or Pinatubo (1991) and 100 times stronger than Mt. Vesuvius (A.D. 79) or Mt. St. Helens (1980).

I believe that at least two of my ancestors (in Europe) died of starvation in 1817 as a result of the "year without summer."