People living now have it pretty good compared to most of human history. But let's journey back to arguably the unluckiest year in human history, a time when an un-perfect storm of global catastrophe caused by an enormous volcanic eruption in Iceland, plummeting temperatures worldwide, crop failures and starvation on a massive scale, and of course the horrific Bubonic Plague rearing its ugly head.
The medieval world really couldn't catch a break in AD 536, which is why historians and scientists argue this truly is the unluckiest year in human history.
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