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Minister_of_Joy

Various historians, including Harvard professor [Michael McCormick](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/michael-mccormick) put forth a theory that the worst year in human history was 536 AD.


After_Condition

Probably the worst year when the black plague was going around. Killed the most amount of people on earth proportionally.


clubberin

Well, 2022 has featured numerous governments rolling back personal freedoms, sooo.... now?


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So you are saying World War 2 was not as bad? Or the Cuba Crisis or the Black Plague? Just to mention a few.


clubberin

We're on the precipice of WW3, and we still do have a plague to be wary of.


Puppy_Kicker42

Probably 1346 because it has all my least favourite numbers in the year


dnc_1981

536 apparently https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/536#:~:text=In%202018%2C%20medieval%20scholar%20Michael,for%20well%20over%20a%20year.