What was the worst year in humanity’s history? Looking only at purely statistics, one could say with confidence that it was the year 1349, when the culmination of black death, which is considered the most deadly pandemic in human history and killed millions of people worldwide. Others would say it was 1918, where after the end of World War I, one of the most devastating wars of all time, Spanish influenza killed about 50 million people worldwide and, according to the WHO, infected up to 500 million people. However, among all these “devastating” years, it stands out in the year 536 AD, as there was the starting point of a series of natural disasters and epidemics that marked the beginning of the end for the Byzantine Empire. In 527 AD, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora were crowned in Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire. According to the Britanica encyclopedia, by 534 the new emperor had coded centuries of Roman […]
Source: News Beast
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