High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Disaster
1257
Mount Samalas erupts catastrophically in Indonesia
1257
The volcano on Lombok island exploded in what modern geologists have identified as one of the largest eruptions of the last ten thousand years. Its sulfur veil cooled the global climate, contributing to crop failures from England to Japan. Medieval chroniclers recorded dark skies and famine without knowing the cause.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.