L'éruption du volcan Laki en 1783-1784 : réappréciation et réinterprétation des conséquences de l'événement en Europe

  • Hellman, Geoffrey
Publication date
March 2021
Publisher
HAL CCSD

Abstract

On 8 June 1783 the Icelandic volcano, Laki, began an eight-month long eruption which resulted indirectly in the deaths of some 10,000 people, mainly through starvation. This thesis reappraises the effects that the Laki eruption may have had throughout Europe by means of a detailed analysis of the appropriate parish registers and burial records. The year 1783 has earned the title of “Annus Mirabilis” or year of wonders, owing to the many unusual events that occurred. An evil smelling dry mist, generated by Laki, spread over much of Europe, even reaching as far as China. A disastrous series of earthquakes hit Calabria and Sicily causing a great number of deaths. In many places the summer was unseasonably hot followed by an exceedingly cold wi...

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