We lived 11 months in which everything seemed to go wrong, and we no longer expect nothing but the worst, and have classified our days as the most difficult thing for a human being, but have the horrific events really accumulated in 2020, in a way that did not happen in any other year in human history?

Or is it impossible to judge the horror of days we did not live in in the sixth century AD?

1348 ... the year of the Black Death

If you imagine the Corona epidemic to be the worst, then you have definitely not heard of the "Black Death" (the plague).

The disease spread rapidly in Britain in 1348, and worsened for many years before and after in different parts of the world, until it became the deadliest epidemic since the beginning of the world until the present day, because this plague completely emptied its toxins until it killed a third of the entire human race, and the stories of eaters spread Human flesh as farmers die and food runs out.

The plague moved north and south in Europe, passing from one village to another, crossing rivers and seas, and inhabiting homes and castles.

Death rates in small rural communities ranged between 19% and 80%, with a population of no more than 400 individuals, so 1,000 villages disappeared in Britain alone, and the evacuation of settlements was not effective to stop the spread of the disease, and entire families had to be wiped out.

European ships carried the epidemic southward across the Mediterranean, to spread quickly throughout Africa and the Middle East, and Constantinople lost 90% of its population, and one writer in Damascus recorded that the plague sat like a king on the throne and swayed strongly, killing thousands every day, and tearing apart Dogs are the corpses of the dead that were not buried in the streets, due to the scarcity of living, until the plague finally stopped at the end of the 17th century.

The plague caused the disappearance of 1000 villages in Britain alone (communication sites)

1492 ... a new date

In that year, the Catholic Kings completed their conquest of Granada as part of a plan to establish a "Christian Europe" by eliminating the political and religious identities that had bound the shores of the Mediterranean for nearly two thousand years.

Almost half a million Muslims were killed in the region within a few years, and the rest were enslaved or expelled, revealing an intent for similar persecution and expulsion in the following years.

Indeed, it happened the same year, after the first American voyage of the European Christopher Columbus, and his discovery caused Spain and other powers to compete for trade and land.

The nightmare did not end with the advent of the early 16th century, as plagues of the ancient world swept away the Americans, and a series of deadly diseases began that eventually killed about 90% of the indigenous population by the mid-19th century, and the worst was the direction of Europeans to Africa in search of a new source of slave labor.

536 ... the worst

A research team from the University of Nottingham and the Institute for Climate Change has identified the year 536 as the worst time ever to survive.

The turbulent year began with a giant volcanic eruption in Iceland, which resulted in an ash cloud that kept the northern hemisphere in darkness for 18 months, dropping temperatures to their lowest levels, and harvests failed, causing famine.

The Icelandic earthquake was only the first, it was followed by a series of volcanic eruptions that lasted for two miserable years. At that time, the bubonic plague decided to benefit from the already weak world population, spreading across the Roman Empire from Egypt to Europe, killing up to 50 million people, and a mysterious disease similar to paralysis appeared Children, and all this led to the collapse of the world's economic systems.