Article contentWas 2020 the worst year ever? If you Google “worst year ever,” most results point to 536 CE. Try refreshing your browser, or Worst Year Ever Series: 536 CE had plague, natural disasters and a dying empire. It was the pits, start to finish Back to videoThis viral factoid traces to the opinion of a Harvard historian published widely two years ago. The year just past had everything 536 did: plague, declining empire, climatic disruption, natural disaster, and the general sense in the culture that, for post-Roman Western Europeans in particular, Dark Ages are at hand.

Source: National Post December 29, 2020 15:19 UTC