The Worst Year to Be Alive in Human History Is Probably Not The One You Think
3 MAY 2021
If someone asked you what the worst year in human history was, what would you guess? 1347 CE was pretty bad. That's the year the Black Death seriously hit Europe. Any of the years of the Holocaust, between 1941 and 1945. Or 1918, the year of the start of the flu pandemic that killed up to 100 million people - even the current pandemic pales still in comparison to that tragedy.
As it turns out, the suckiest of all was a year most people have probably never even thought about: 536 CE.