The Year The Sun Turned Black: The Volcanic Winter Of 536 AD | Catastrophe | Timeline

I read a very interesting article on Medium this week, and I couldn't help but write about it here.
You've heard someone refer to the Middle Ages as the "Dark Ages", haven't you?

For the origin of the term is not only linked to the ignorance and brutality that reigned in those centuries...
It arose from something much more tangible.

The skies of all Europe, the Middle East and part of Asia were taken by an inexplicable extremely dense fog - not long ago some researchers discovered that there was a huge volcanic eruption in Iceland at the beginning of 536, that is, nowadays we know what it was, but the people of that time had no idea - which turned the days into continuous nights for almost TWO YEARS.

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Obviously, without the sun, the crops died. Millions of people died WITHOUT HAVING ANYTHING TO EAT. To get an idea of ​​the change that occurred in the climate globally, IT SNOWED during the summer in China, and Peru experienced its worst drought. Sulfur expelled by the Icelandic volcano in Antarctica has been found.

Living two years without the sun didn't end humanity, but it killed most of it.

To make matters worse, in 541, a few years after this tragedy, the survivors had to deal with an outbreak of bubonic plague, which killed more than one hundred million people and wiped out almost half of the inhabitants of the Byzantine Empire.