Go to https://curiositystream.thld.co/geographicsmar for unlimited access to the world’s top documentaries and non­fiction series. → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Biographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ MegaProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw SideProjects: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3Wn3dABlgESm8Bzn8Vamgg Casual Criminalist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1tsmksyf6TgKFMdt8-05Q Today I Found Out: null TopTenz: null Highlight History: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnb-VTwBHEV3gtiB9di9DZQ XPLRD: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVH8lH7ZLDUe_d9mZ3dlyYQ Business Blaze: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYY5GWf7MHFJ6DZeHreoXgw This video is #sponsored by Curiosity Stream. Source/Further reading: BBC In Our Time podcast, the Year Without a Summer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077j4yv USA Today, overview: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/05/26/year-without-a-summer-1816-mount-tambora/84855694/ History, overview: https://www.history.com/news/the-deadliest-volcanic-eruption-in-history History Today: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/eruption-mount-tambora Smithsonian: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blast-from-the-past-65102374/ BBC radio documentary on 1816: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0769l3q Writing Frankenstein: https://www.history.com/news/frankenstein-true-story-mary-shelley National Geographic, more on Frankenstein: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/07-08/birth_of_Frankenstein_Mary_Shelley/ Guardian, How the year without summer gave us dark masterpieces: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/16/1816-year-without-summer-dark-masterpieces-beethoven-schubert-shelley Darkness by Lord Byron: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43825/darkness-56d222aeeee1b The Bologna Prophecy: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/14/outlook-perpetual-freezing-darkness-weatherwatch VEI Index guide: http://ete.cet.edu/gcc/?/volcanoes_explosivity/ Cholera in London: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/cholera-victorian-london Smithsonian, Can Tambora explain Waterloo? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-napoleons-defeat-waterloo-be-traced-volcanic-eruption-indonesia-180970211/