http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/09/thousands-of-13th-century-londoners-may-have-been-killed-by-a-distant-volcano/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/09/thousands-of-13th-century-londoners-may-have-been-killed-by-a-distant-volcano/#comment-33925 blindboy Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:36:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39018#comment-33925 To add to the previous post a little research indicates there was serious unrest in Bali in 1262 or thereabouts which caused the Javanese ruler Kratanagara to "pacify" the local population. You can see Rinjani from Sanur and various other locations on Bali so if it did erupt at that time Bali would have suffered greatly. Nothing like hunger to spark unrest! If this is true there should be historical verification from Java which would also have been severely affected. The Modjapahit ruled at the time and there are at least some written records. To add to the previous post a little research indicates there was serious unrest in Bali in 1262 or thereabouts which caused the Javanese ruler Kratanagara to “pacify” the local population. You can see Rinjani from Sanur and various other locations on Bali so if it did erupt at that time Bali would have suffered greatly. Nothing like hunger to spark unrest! If this is true there should be historical verification from Java which would also have been severely affected. The Modjapahit ruled at the time and there are at least some written records.

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/08/09/thousands-of-13th-century-londoners-may-have-been-killed-by-a-distant-volcano/#comment-33924 blindboy Mon, 13 Aug 2012 22:17:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=39018#comment-33924 The 1815 eruption of Tambora on Sumbawa, east of Bali, caused the "year without a summer" in Europe and North America with the associated famines. Tambora was the biggest eruption in over a thousand years but was a firecracker compared to Toba in Northern Sumatra which erupted 70, 000 years ago and nearly rendered H.sapiens extinct! The 1815 eruption of Tambora on Sumbawa, east of Bali, caused the “year without a summer” in Europe and North America with the associated famines. Tambora was the biggest eruption in over a thousand years but was a firecracker compared to Toba in Northern Sumatra which erupted 70, 000 years ago and nearly rendered H.sapiens extinct!

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