In the year 536, the sun dimmed for 18 months: "one of the worst periods to be alive"

In March of the year 536, the sky over Constantinople went dark for a year-and-a-half. The Roman historian Procopius wrote that "the sun gave forth its light without brightness… and it seemed exceedingly like the sun in eclipse." The statesman Cassiodorus described noon without shadows, a full moon "empty of splendour," and "a winter without storms, a spring without mildness, and a summer without heat." — Read the rest

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