Think 2020 was bad? Historians say 536 was worst year ever to be alive
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A partial solar eclipse is viewed from Europe on March 20, 2015, via the European Space Agency s sun-watching Proba-2 satellite. File Photo courtesy European Space Agency
April 12 You wake up to a dark, dreary, glum-feeling, Monday-type of morning. For the 547th consecutive day. Just 18 months prior, you were a hard-working farmer gearing up for another bountiful crop season.
But then the skies went dark. From early 536 to 537, they stayed dark.
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Across much of eastern Europe and throughout Asia, spring turned into summer and fall gave way to winter without a day of sunshine. Like a blackout curtain over the sun, millions of people across the world s most populated countries squinted through dim conditions, breathing in chokingly thick air and losing nearly every crop they were relying on to harvest.