The year
1816 is known as the
Year Without a Summer (also the
Poverty Year, the
Summer that Never Was,
Year There Was No Summer, and
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death), because of severe
climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the
Northern Hemisphere.