I wonder what the solar cycle was then. Was the sun at a sunspot miminum similar to the Maunder and Dalton minimums? There seems to be a correlation between sunspot minimums and natural disasters. The years of the Black Plague were during a solar minimum as well, I believe.
Those darn fossil fuel burning chariots and wagons were responsible for sinning against Earth mother Gaia. That’s got to be what caused the problem - right?