Great calamities from 526 to 1900�s

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Could anyone tell me of the calamities in the whole period of 526 AD - 1900's.

I know of the Black Plague, Plague of Justinian, Climate changes, Medieval Warm Period, Little Ice Age, Karakatoa in 533, Great Famine of 1315-1317,

Great Plague of London, Great Plague of Vienna, Krakatoa, Year Without Summer, Tambora, Italian Plague of 1629-1631

I saw a very interesting program on TV about the eruption of Krakatoa in 533 AD. Apparently the increadibly powerful erupton spewed such a massive amount of ash into the atmosphere that it somehow managed to create climatic change. This climatic change, the show assures us, brought about the conditions necessary for the re-emergence of the bubonic plague in Africa, which then rapidly spread north to the great civlization of Byzantium and Persia and beyond. The plague wiped out enormous amounts of the population, further encouraging barbarian invasions and pushing Europe further into the Dark Ages.

It is a bit out of your time frame, and the theory itself isnt water tight, but if it is true then its a fascinating example of how one disaster can have an enormous chain reaction.

http://www.abc.se/~m10354/uwa/wreckblk.htm

http://ocean-ridge.ldeo.columbia.edu/BlackSeaShelf/BlackSeaT ext.html

-Earthquakes of Antioch, December 13 at 115 AC, when Trajan wintering there during the campaign against the parths