Industrial Age · Southeast Asia · Disaster

1815

Mount Tambora Erupts

April 10, 1815

Tambora, on the island of Sumbawa in the Dutch East Indies, exploded with a force that dwarfed any eruption in recorded history. Seventy thousand people died immediately from pyroclastic flows and tsunamis. The ash veil circled the globe, producing the 'Year Without a Summer' in 1816 - crop failures from New England to Yunnan, famine, and cholera.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: 1802: Nguyen Dynasty Unites Vietnam
After: February 6, 1819: Raffles Founds Singapore

Before and after in Disaster

Before: September 14, 1812: Moscow Burns
After: June 1816: Year Without a Summer

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora