Mount Tambora
event
8 mentions
6 recordings
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 17 Aug
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Volcanic eruption in 1815 that caused the “year without a summer”
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Peak in the week of 14 Aug — 3 mentions across 2 series.
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newest first · ▶ plays the momentDan CumminsTimesuck with Dan Cummins · 520 - Mother of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley · 2:13:06 · 17 Aug
…If Mount Tambora had not erupted in eighteen fifteen, we may not have had Frankenstein written the following summer.…
Dan CumminsTimesuck with Dan Cummins · 520 - Mother of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley · 1:27:16 · 17 Aug
…The summer of eighteen sixteen was unusually cold and stormy, possibly as a result of the April eighteen fifteen eruption of Mount Tamba Tambora across the world in Indonesia.…
Jeremy BamberBoring History for Sleep · The Extinction of the Dinosaurs ☄️🦖 | A Warning for H... · 2:19:07 · 16 Aug
…In the early nineteenth century, the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora, in what is now Indonesia, a single eruption, far smaller than even one Deccan pulse injected enough sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere to cause a measurable drop in global temperatures the following year.…
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