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Worst year to ever be born on earth

Posted on 11/7/25 at 3:57 pm
Posted by ClemsonKitten
Member since Aug 2025
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Posted on 11/7/25 at 3:57 pm
536 CE – Congratulations, you have just been born at the start of what many historians call the worst year to be alive. The sun dims for more than a year because of massive volcanic eruptions, triggering the Late Antique Little Ice Age. Crops fail, famines spread everywhere, the Roman Empire continues to fall apart, and the Plague of Justinian soon arrives. China, Europe, and much of the known world turn into pure misery. Nobody is safe.

1310 CE – The Medieval Warm Period ends and the Little Ice Age begins. Europe is hit with brutal famines, crop failures, and then the Black Death, which wipes out nearly half the population. Life expectancy just became a cruel joke.
1610 CE – The climate cools again, bringing another deep freeze and more chaos. Europe suffers through the Thirty Years War, the Ming Dynasty collapses in China, and the Ottoman and Mughal Empires dominate their regions. If you live in the Americas, colonization is tearing your world apart, and survival depends on luck or servitude. Good luck Chuck.

1895 CE – You arrive just in time for a nonstop century of disasters. World War One, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, World War Two, and then decades of Cold War tension. It is basically the full global catastrophe package.

My pick – Probably living through the 1600s in the Americas, facing the consequences of European colonization and the Atlantic slave trade. You would watch your entire way of life collapse and transform forever. There is no going back. Also, the 30 years war was hell on earth in Germany and Central Europe too.
This post was edited on 11/7/25 at 4:14 pm
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175298 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 3:58 pm to
Downvote for not using in the year of our LORD
Posted by Radio One
On the banks of the Wabash
Member since Sep 2023
5602 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 3:58 pm to
What’s common about the Common Era?
Posted by WestCoastAg
Member since Oct 2012
149262 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 3:59 pm to
Any time in the 80s or 70s
This post was edited on 11/7/25 at 4:00 pm
Posted by olgoi khorkhoi
priapism survivor
Member since May 2011
16240 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:02 pm to
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1895 CE – You arrive just in time for a nonstop century of disasters. World War One, the Spanish Flu, the Great Depression, World War Two, and then decades of Cold War tension. It is basically the full global catastrophe package.



but if you survive it, you get to l experience going from horses and buggies to spaceships to the moon
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Atlanta, GA
Member since Sep 2017
13409 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:02 pm to
2025
Posted by BabyTac
Austin, TX
Member since Jun 2008
15534 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:04 pm to
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What’s common about the Common Era?


I’ve literally never heard of this. Is this the new AD?
Posted by nola tiger lsu
Member since Nov 2007
6818 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:12 pm to
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I’ve literally never heard of this.


Yes you have, cmon.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
42432 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:13 pm to
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CE


Christ Exists?
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128525 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:22 pm to
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CE


What is this?
Posted by MBclass83
Member since Oct 2010
10052 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:29 pm to
Glad I'm not the only one.
Posted by Shanegolang
Denham Springs, La
Member since Sep 2015
4706 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:30 pm to
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What is this?


Common era, same as AD
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128525 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:32 pm to
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same as AD


No it isnt
Posted by TheHarahanian
Actually not Harahan as of 6/2023
Member since May 2017
22658 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:32 pm to
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If you live in the Americas, colonization is tearing your world apart, and survival depends on luck or servitude.

Flip side: great time to be a colonist.
This post was edited on 11/7/25 at 4:33 pm
Posted by TygerLyfe
Member since May 2023
2614 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 4:40 pm to
Every year since 2001
Posted by Suntiger
STG or BR or somewhere else
Member since Feb 2007
35384 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 5:09 pm to
LINK

We already did this one.
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
64656 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 5:14 pm to
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Probably living through the 1600s in the Americas, facing the consequences of European colonization and the Atlantic slave trade. You would watch your entire way of life collapse and transform forever.
Wow, that really could've been you.
Posted by OldyMoldy
Member since May 2025
23 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 5:24 pm to
Common era, it’s idiotic, I just retcon it as Christian Era.
Posted by Mushroom1968
Member since Jun 2023
5081 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 5:28 pm to
1895 AD would be a rough one
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
104046 posts
Posted on 11/7/25 at 5:30 pm to
2035: AI becomes sentient
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