Definitely people living to 40 was a long life people were hoping just to grow enough food to survive another year now America throws away billions pounds of food away every year
@@angeloguap6174 I read something recently that said lots of people lived well into old age, it's just that so many babies died at birth or in their first year, it reduces the average life span.
I agree I think it will be a turning point in history; I thought it was interesting the times climate changed thinking so maybe they will call it 2021 in future
@@OldNew45 All people or any people? There has never been a year that all people could readily identify that quote. And someday, no people will be able to identify that quote.
Probably has to do with the death toll (in percentage with adjustments made to equalize the populations) is higher this time and the cascading effects have not even really begun to be calculated ot felt. (As someone living in America currently. I would also like to add the violent near-destruction of our government, the lingering effects of a rising neo-Nazi faction in our country, and a series of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, and now the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians to the list of unmitigated joys of the 2020s.)
@@whaleymom76this is wildly inaccurate. The Spanish flu killed 50 million out of less than a 2 billion world population. Those included otherwise healthy people in their 20s & 30s. Covid killed 7 million out of almost 8 billion, mostly elderly or those with comorbidities. Not to mention the hyperbolic political statements at the end of your post.
All of my grandparents were born or toddlers during 1918’s Spanish Flu pandemic. They grew up during the Depression and my maternal grandfather volunteered for the Navy, leaving my grandmother and their twin daughters, born in 1941, and my grandmother was pregnant with my mother, born in 1945. My mother and father both come from very poor Irish immigrants- my mother’s side were from Strokestown, County Roscommon, one of the worst suffering during the Famine. My mother died in 2021 and two grandchildren were born in 2021. Life goes on, through pandemics, wars, economic depressions. Nothing lasts forever, even really crap years that seem to bring out the worst in humanity.
The past holds a lot of regrets and worse but it’s up to us to make the future better. Mainly to learn from our past mistakes. Especially, not repeating the past.
Looks like the Great Depression has been surpassed. I hear that the horrendous depression in Lebanon right now is the worst depression since the 19th century, according to the IMF.
You know I really love when Simon puts out these super cheerful videos. Really makes my day. Really it's hard to think of something more cheerful than this video
@@landofalwayswinter666 you must be from one of those places where everyone is serious and jokes aren't made, like Finland, Vietnam, or Rotherham. I was being snarky.
'We've come along way since war and famine' in some parts of the world (unfortunately much of the world is still struggling with famine and war among other things).
Yeah, this video was a bit Eurocentric. There have been arguably worse ecological disasters in other regions of the globe. The one knocking out the great Mayan empire, for just one example.
we have not only have enough food to feed entire worlds population and nations not only are far more diplomatic than before but they are also organizations that make sure wars arent as they destructive as they were in the past
This is positively cheerful compared to some of dark rabbit holes to hell I have found myself in lately. I should learn that Warning - Graphic Content is actually a warning that I'm about to view something vile.
Thank you for including 1492 in this list Simon. It's so important that people realize history is written by the victors, and that Columbus "discovering" the American continent should never be celebrated in any form.
I am just starting to watch the video....I have always thought Simon has made great videos but recently he is just killin' it! The videos I have watched recently are just so high in quality.
In the 80s I lived in Montana on a cattle ranch. Out of nowhere, it decided to snow in the middle of summer. It was crazy. Nobody had feed for their cattle as they were in a grazing season. We had a large enough ranch that we didn't really see to many losses. We had enough feed to hold us over. But other ranches didn't fair so well. It really drove home for me how fragile our food chain and supply system really is. We lose our agriculture. We lose everything.
When discussing the contributing factors to the devastation of the Great Depression, you can't overlook the Dust Bowl and mass migration that happened right before the Stock Market crashed. It added a severe food shortage and huge unemployment rates as existing crises when the Stock Market crashed.
Great Video as always.! We love black plague and North Korea as well for a subject matter. Also Chernobyl. But (yes it's alright to start a sentence with a conjunction now) being a yank we never really learned about Prohibition. Obviously they made alcohol illegal. Some say it was started by the LDS church..? Would make a cool video. Thank you for doing what you do!
FTR, according to the currently accepted modern history records, Prohibition was the end result of what began as the Temperance Movement in the mid-1800s (This time period is specific to America. There were various Temperance movements in various countries over the span of centuries. I only use the American timeline because Prohibition, the Volstead Act-this is the actual name of the law that detailed the specific restrictions during Prohibition, and the rise of wide spread, large scale, organized crime on a national level that was spawned by Prohibition are laws and situations specific to America in this time period. As an amusing side note, in an interesting nugget of timing, cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola about 6 months before the Stock Market crashed. I can't prove causation, but...
I have the feeling we are going to have to deal with covid for many years yet, seeing how the developed countries cant get their people vaccinated. Like only half of the americans are vaccinated and over here in sweden only 41% are vaccinated. Im ashamed by my people.
@@JamesBiggar The estimated herd immunity threshold for covid is 90%, so. ... Measles was just as bad Remember HI is a function of r nought. Delta spreads much faster than the wild version.
@Fascinating Facts Literally no vaccine is a cure. That isn't the intention. The Covid vaccines' primary focus is to reduce the severity of the symptoms for people infected, yes, which is a worthy goal. However, it's thoroughly erroneous to say that the vaccines have no affect on the spread of the virus. Vaccinated people have a much higher immunity than those who are unvaccinated, higher even than people who have been infected and survived. The replication you mention is why we have so many new variations of the virus, and each person who the virus has a chance to get a foot-hold in, is a petri dish to create yet another strain. If everyone who could get the vaccine did, it would vastly diminish the possible hosts for the virus to mutate in. That's how the "Spanish" Influenza finally petered out--so many people who survived, had developed immunity to it, that it had little chance to replicate.
Traditionally herd immunity is from all sources; not just those that got vaccinated but also those unfortunate enough to get covid for real. This is complicated by similar to the flu, covid mutates and also similar to the common cold that the level of antibodies drops over time and so there's a decent chance of catching it in a few months. The UK Guardian though recently had a paper on a UK study where people volunteered to be regularly exposed to Covid; those that never tested positive had T-cell count spikes shortly after exposure even with continuing to test negative for Covid itself.
@Fascinating Facts Actually, what you said is that the vaccines don't stop someone from spreading the virus, that vaccinated people "spread it all the same" which is false as it's incomplete information. Those with immunity spread it much less, because the virus has much less of a chance to get enough of a foot-hold, ie can duplicate itself enough to make the host highly contagious. Also, perhaps it's different where you live, but here they report the new cases as vaccinated vs unvaccinated numbers, and the vaccinated are consistently much, much lower.
@@celticlass8573 I had covid 2019 my mother is double vaccinated she got covid and spread to everyone in my family but me and I spent the most time with her natural immunity has done me well not so much for the rest of my vaccinated family
@@emmarichardson965 i think those monks was confermed as far as im aware but it still sugests it may have been in the old world prior to the descovey of the new.
That is actually debated now because there are archeological and historic records that pre-date Columbus' flipping adventure that indicate the disease already existed in Europe and the surrounds. I think there was even reference to a similar disease in either ancient Greece or Babylonia.
When was this filmed? Three days after this was posted on YT, the listed number of infections is a quarter milliard and fatalities have topped five million.
The flu of 1918 lasted longer than your sources/writers told you. My G Grandfather died from it in 1920 in Illinois when he was treating a small outbreak. From what I’ve read, there continued to be small outbreaks until about 1925.
You should hear the narrator for DARK 5. He talks like he has 30 seconds to finish because he's in front of a firing squad. I had to stop listening to him because his hysterical, breathless delivery in an auctioneer's speed gave me an anxiety attack, no matter how interested I was in the subject...I always wonder if channel operators have ever heard of timing and pausing to build suspense and give people time to react to what they are hearing...
01:27 - That kid, having a mammary meal, looks pretty damn strong for starving. 😂 I had to google the pic in question and he looks like a little bodybuilder!
Japan lost far fewer civilians to the 2 bombs than an additional nine months of conventional bombing (including firebombing) + the major invasion (code name: Operation Downfall for the entire operation; subdivided into Operation Olympic planned to start Nov '45 and Operation Coronet in early '46 but would have been delayed by a typhoon.) For reference see the firebombing of Dresden in February 1945 and of Tokyo in March 1945 with conventional high explosive bombs.
@@maconp1119 Remember when Al Gore was convinced that Global Warming would soon kill us all? Now we're experiencing the opposite. That short stint of Global Warming (around 2004ish) was in preparation for the Global COOLING we're now experiencing.
*I am not for one minute disputing 'Climate Change/Global Warming' but would contest strongly that is is not caused by Humans, but a natural cycle that has occured over Millions of Years. Where I am sitting now [Midlands UK] a mere 12,000 Years ago was under ½ mile thick Ice Sheet. I kid you not Mammoth Lake nearby. All these **_Measures_** proposed to Halt or Reverse it are pathetic and will not make the slightest difference' The most stupid of all is halting what are now very efficient clean ICE Cars and replacing them with Dirty Electric that only the most wealthy can afford initially and have off road/Garage parking to enable them to recharge overnight (for a full recharge up to several days) Quite honestly I see this as a way to Tax the average person for the benefit of the wealthy who running an EV pay no Road Tax/Fuel Tax and even get a Government Grant when purchasing one. There is a £34 Billion Black Hole set to appear in the future and I dread the future for our Children/Grandchildren after the gigantic **-astronomical-** costs Covid19 has caused. Wait until 98% efficient Gas Boilers are prohibited and have to spend £15-20k on a Heat pump that is most **-useless-** inefficient in the Winter [cold] Months when little or no Solar Power and on a still day Zero Wind Power. Nuclear Fission may be the answer but until that time Quote "UK Government Advisor {Allegra Stratton} on Global Warming will continue using my elderly VW Diesel - say no more !*
1949 the year MAO took rule in China. 200 +million dead, total destruction of a millenia old culture and 90% of the treasures of it, and continuing impact.
10:07 *I always soak my £1 Coin in White [Virgin} Vinegar for 5 Minutes and then use Dettol (or other Government approved) before entering any Supermarket [wearing a Crash Helmet & Approved Mask] what am I doing wrong as have been refused entry at many popular places to grab 100 Toilet Rolls and a bag of Spuds ?*
@Dungeon Master I actually did get Covid last year, I just didn't want to let the pandemic dominate my life. I understand that last year was a bad year economically for billions of people, if not every person in the world, but if you choose to let one event dominate your life, than of course people are going to be miserable. My sister lived in Africa during most of the pandemic and the people there didn't obsess over it. They weren't scared on this disease like the media is, they treated it like every other disease they've faced and continued on life like they usually did.
@Philip Greenwald Agree! People always think that the worst years are the ones they personally experience, which is understandable, but we have a much better structure for propping up society now than the turn of the century era even, where there weren't the social services, doctors, insurance agents and so on, set up to intervene after disasters. People who volunteer for programs like doctors without borders are really the unsung, almost unnoticed heros of our age...they save thousands who would certainly die horrible deaths without aid...
@@a_can_of_soda I won’t disagree with you there. It just seems that over the past three Presidents, it’s gotten worse. Especially with the current one.
The audio balancing on Simon's videos has really gone downhill. He seems to be whisper speaking into the mic to the point where it is unintelligible at times, and then ads come on glaringly loud and clear as day. Please fix this issue as I love the content but watching has become massively inconvenient!
1932 shouldn't be forgotten. There's the Holodomor in Ukraine along with famines in other parts of the Soviet Union, the dust bowl in America as well as the impact of the Great Depression worldwide. The rest of the list is solid, though I wonder if Genghis Khan may have qualified a worst year alone with his slaughter across Asia.
I'd like to see something on the time of the Sea People. I know a combination of things like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and war led to dark ages in Mediterranean area. Some cultures were wiped out, like the highly advanced Minoan civilization.
What the world needs to do now is boycott anything Chinese made, including companies that aren't Chinese but manufacture there. It is crazy an employee here spends their money not here nor with friendly places
Boycotting those in support of the Chinese is essential too. Hence why I buy local, to ensure I'm not helping those who wish to persecute me for my beliefs. Aka (The left)
2020 was so bad i am still getting flashbacks to not working and getting free gov money to stay in my house and sometimes break the lockdown rules with 0 consequence. such hardship.
I recall while doing a course on pre history, & there was a volcanic eruption that put Mt Tambora to shame, from memory it occurred up to 20 000 years ago & wiped out most of all living species on the planet & was only discovered fairly recently in sedimentary records. I have searched online every now & then for a name & a time, but no luck, does anyone have any info on this ?.
Not a volcanic eruption but possibly you're thinking of the younger dryas impact hypothesis? Its a presumed comet impact that occurred about 12,500 years ago. There was massive, rapid climate change and almost all mega fauna in the americas went extinct.
Could be the Laacher See eruption, which is the volcanic alternative to the Younger Dryas impact theory, but that eruption only had a VEI of 6 compared to Tambora's 7. Could be the Taupo Volcano, specifically the Oruanui eruption, which happened 27,000 years ago and had a VEI of 8. Could be the Toba Volcano, which erupted 74,000 years ago and was even bigger than the Taupo eruption. This one is suspected of causing a major volcanic winter and causing population bottlenecks in a bunch of different species, which is why I'm including it here.
I think Simon said he was only using the time period where they had recorded history. (He didn't specify but I assume he meant some version of a written recod.)
You're awesome Simon you completely caught me off guard in the very beginning of the video with number 10 I expected you to have this list you know within the last hundred 200 years maybe but no you're like number 10 13 15 I was like what the f*** that caught me completely off guard that was awesome😂
The 30 years war was not religious. The demarcation lines simply do not fit EG Cardinal Richelieu who was the defacto leader of France was fighting with the protestants. If however you look, it was really the Hapsburghs vs everyone else.
The fact that 2020 is even mentioned is proof of how privileged an era we live in, it didn’t even kill .1% of us but we view it as the worst year of our lives. We are blessed to be alive today
Social media destroying social life, covid still a very real issue despite a vaccine, and now we have avian influenza (bird flu) again..... I'd say 2021 is a very strong candidate.
Once again the fact is obvious- *the past was the worst*
Definitely people living to 40 was a long life people were hoping just to grow enough food to survive another year now America throws away billions pounds of food away every year
The future: hold my super volcano and solar flare!
existing is the worst if we’re being honest regardless of the time lol
Those are wise words indeed
@@angeloguap6174 I read something recently that said lots of people lived well into old age, it's just that so many babies died at birth or in their first year, it reduces the average life span.
If 2020 is one of the worst years in human history, humanity clearly hasn't had it as bad as I thought.
What a unique way of saying nothing happened to me so it can’t be that bad
Nothing happened to 99% of people. Whatever you suffered doesn't equate to reality for most folks.@@josephaxler492
Literally every year without indoor plumbing was objectively worse than 2020.
I think Oliver Cromwell wiping out 40% of the Irish population had alot to do with those numbers you quoted Simon.
What makes 2020 so terrible isn't in the pain it directly inflicted, but rather the stage it has set for the future
More like Bezos
I agree I think it will be a turning point in history; I thought it was interesting the times climate changed thinking so maybe they will call it 2021 in future
2020 was the best year ever, funnily enough it was one of the years with the lowest death rate ever
That represents 2016 more
2020?? That was a love tap.
"Bring out your dead, bring out your dead!"
Monty Python
"I'm not dead yet!"
"Well, you will be soon!"
"I feel happyyyyyyy!" THUNK
I hope there never comes a day when people can't readily identify that quote.
I don’t want to go on the cart!
Oh don’t be such a baby
😂
@@OldNew45 All people or any people? There has never been a year that all people could readily identify that quote. And someday, no people will be able to identify that quote.
@@MayTheSchwartzBeWithYou Any people, of course.
Me in 2020: At least it isn't 1918.
This video: Worst years in human history. #6 - 1918, #4 - 2020.
Probably has to do with the death toll (in percentage with adjustments made to equalize the populations) is higher this time and the cascading effects have not even really begun to be calculated ot felt. (As someone living in America currently. I would also like to add the violent near-destruction of our government, the lingering effects of a rising neo-Nazi faction in our country, and a series of the deadliest mass shootings in American history, and now the wholesale slaughter of Ukrainians to the list of unmitigated joys of the 2020s.)
@@whaleymom76this is wildly inaccurate. The Spanish flu killed 50 million out of less than a 2 billion world population. Those included otherwise healthy people in their 20s & 30s. Covid killed 7 million out of almost 8 billion, mostly elderly or those with comorbidities. Not to mention the hyperbolic political statements at the end of your post.
All of my grandparents were born or toddlers during 1918’s Spanish Flu pandemic. They grew up during the Depression and my maternal grandfather volunteered for the Navy, leaving my grandmother and their twin daughters, born in 1941, and my grandmother was pregnant with my mother, born in 1945. My mother and father both come from very poor Irish immigrants- my mother’s side were from Strokestown, County Roscommon, one of the worst suffering during the Famine. My mother died in 2021 and two grandchildren were born in 2021. Life goes on, through pandemics, wars, economic depressions. Nothing lasts forever, even really crap years that seem to bring out the worst in humanity.
Literally survivor bias. It should be obvious that there won't be anyone alive to talk about how fragile life is after it ends.
The past holds a lot of regrets and worse but it’s up to us to make the future better. Mainly to learn from our past mistakes. Especially, not repeating the past.
Well....we're screwed.
Yeah, except that’s literally all we do. People actually believe communism will still work.
only problem is that people these days would rather fight than work together to solve problems.
Well said!
Tell that to the hordes of Hamas Youth bringing Nazi Germany to the Anglosphere.
Looks like the Great Depression has been surpassed. I hear that the horrendous depression in Lebanon right now is the worst depression since the 19th century, according to the IMF.
But has it gone global?
@@mackenziedrake Yes, but the elite don't want to admit it yet.
Catching this one early on! Love the content !
Another great list!
If only people would look to the past to prevent repeats in the future...
Well that was a jolly cheerful video!
Then don't watch. Problem solved.
You know I really love when Simon puts out these super cheerful videos. Really makes my day. Really it's hard to think of something more cheerful than this video
who made you watch it?
Then don't watch it? Its not like the title was misleading, I don't understand what you're bitching about.
@@landofalwayswinter666 you must be from one of those places where everyone is serious and jokes aren't made, like Finland, Vietnam, or Rotherham. I was being snarky.
@@vanrozay8871 I was being snarky. Now, go purchase yourself a sense of humor. They're on sale.
@@MrJjones543that’s so funny I forgot to laugh
Absolutely fascinating!
Great list! Amazed the year 536 didn't make number 1 though
It did.
@@owenshebbeare2999 it was #7
Agreed. It was much worse than 2020.
Another high quality video. I thank you! 🙏
'We've come along way since war and famine' in some parts of the world (unfortunately much of the world is still struggling with famine and war among other things).
Yeah, this video was a bit Eurocentric. There have been arguably worse ecological disasters in other regions of the globe. The one knocking out the great Mayan empire, for just one example.
@@patrickmccurry1563 I agree, at least 3 of the years only affected the European population of the world
we have not only have enough food to feed entire worlds population and nations not only are far more diplomatic than before but they are also organizations that make sure wars arent as they destructive as they were in the past
The worst day in human history? will not be reported on.
Trump wins 2024 be the worst
@@Eggmanrocks gonna scream at the sky again? Lemme get some 🍿 ready.......TDS is hilarious.
@@theg.c.142 At least the Democrats didn't attack the Capitol due to an election not going their way.
Biden Derangement Syndrome is hilarious.
In India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and much of Africa tens of millions of people have died/will die without ever being counted.
This video made me grateful to be alive today and not during the periods described, except for 2020. It also depressed the hell out of me 😢
This is positively cheerful compared to some of dark rabbit holes to hell I have found myself in lately. I should learn that Warning - Graphic Content is actually a warning that I'm about to view something vile.
Thank you for including 1492 in this list Simon. It's so important that people realize history is written by the victors, and that Columbus "discovering" the American continent should never be celebrated in any form.
I love death and destruction, That should be a global holiday like WW1-3 or any other bad year.
I am just starting to watch the video....I have always thought Simon has made great videos but recently he is just killin' it! The videos I have watched recently are just so high in quality.
Excellent. Thank you for the video.
In the 80s I lived in Montana on a cattle ranch. Out of nowhere, it decided to snow in the middle of summer. It was crazy. Nobody had feed for their cattle as they were in a grazing season. We had a large enough ranch that we didn't really see to many losses. We had enough feed to hold us over. But other ranches didn't fair so well. It really drove home for me how fragile our food chain and supply system really is. We lose our agriculture. We lose everything.
It's almost like the planet keeps trying to throw off an infection, it's just that the infecting organism is so darned resilient.
That infection is us!
@@overdose247 When you look at what we've done to the biosphere, the parallel is almost inescapable.
2022 will soon be on the list I bet.
When discussing the contributing factors to the devastation of the Great Depression, you can't overlook the Dust Bowl and mass migration that happened right before the Stock Market crashed. It added a severe food shortage and huge unemployment rates as existing crises when the Stock Market crashed.
No mention of the Australian wildfires for the 2020 entry? Why?
That's one of the first things I thought of when I saw this video.
Weird, huh.
America have forest fires all the time and they don’t hate years because of it
I can hardly cope with this pandemic, can't imagine coming out of a war and being thrown into the depths of the Spanish Flu!
Great Video as always.! We love black plague and North Korea as well for a subject matter. Also Chernobyl. But (yes it's alright to start a sentence with a conjunction now) being a yank we never really learned about Prohibition. Obviously they made alcohol illegal. Some say it was started by the LDS church..? Would make a cool video. Thank you for doing what you do!
FTR, according to the currently accepted modern history records, Prohibition was the end result of what began as the Temperance Movement in the mid-1800s (This time period is specific to America. There were various Temperance movements in various countries over the span of centuries. I only use the American timeline
because Prohibition, the Volstead Act-this is the actual name of the law that detailed the specific restrictions during Prohibition, and the rise of wide spread, large scale, organized crime on a national level that was spawned by Prohibition are laws and situations specific to America in this time period. As an amusing side note, in an interesting nugget of timing, cocaine was removed from Coca-Cola about 6 months before the Stock Market crashed. I can't prove causation, but...
As I'm watching this the ' Absolute Craziest Stories from the Bible ' Brain Blaze just dropped. Wtf have you been up to Simon?..lol
"The 10 Worst Years in Human History"
*So Far*
I have the feeling we are going to have to deal with covid for many years yet, seeing how the developed countries cant get their people vaccinated. Like only half of the americans are vaccinated and over here in sweden only 41% are vaccinated. Im ashamed by my people.
@@JamesBiggar The estimated herd immunity threshold for covid is 90%, so. ...
Measles was just as bad
Remember HI is a function of r nought. Delta spreads much faster than the wild version.
@Fascinating Facts Literally no vaccine is a cure. That isn't the intention. The Covid vaccines' primary focus is to reduce the severity of the symptoms for people infected, yes, which is a worthy goal. However, it's thoroughly erroneous to say that the vaccines have no affect on the spread of the virus. Vaccinated people have a much higher immunity than those who are unvaccinated, higher even than people who have been infected and survived. The replication you mention is why we have so many new variations of the virus, and each person who the virus has a chance to get a foot-hold in, is a petri dish to create yet another strain. If everyone who could get the vaccine did, it would vastly diminish the possible hosts for the virus to mutate in. That's how the "Spanish" Influenza finally petered out--so many people who survived, had developed immunity to it, that it had little chance to replicate.
Traditionally herd immunity is from all sources; not just those that got vaccinated but also those unfortunate enough to get covid for real. This is complicated by similar to the flu, covid mutates and also similar to the common cold that the level of antibodies drops over time and so there's a decent chance of catching it in a few months.
The UK Guardian though recently had a paper on a UK study where people volunteered to be regularly exposed to Covid; those that never tested positive had T-cell count spikes shortly after exposure even with continuing to test negative for Covid itself.
@Fascinating Facts Actually, what you said is that the vaccines don't stop someone from spreading the virus, that vaccinated people "spread it all the same" which is false as it's incomplete information. Those with immunity spread it much less, because the virus has much less of a chance to get enough of a foot-hold, ie can duplicate itself enough to make the host highly contagious. Also, perhaps it's different where you live, but here they report the new cases as vaccinated vs unvaccinated numbers, and the vaccinated are consistently much, much lower.
@@celticlass8573 I had covid 2019 my mother is double vaccinated she got covid and spread to everyone in my family but me and I spent the most time with her natural immunity has done me well not so much for the rest of my vaccinated family
Informative
1492 , you forgot that Columbus brought back Syphilis to Europe from Cuba too lol
that may not be true as archological evidence from a friery in Hull showed that bones dating to 1475 may have had the desese
@@Tommy-5684 I recall watching a documentary about some skeletons found in Pompeii that showed signs of congenital syphilis too.
@@emmarichardson965 i think those monks was confermed as far as im aware but it still sugests it may have been in the old world prior to the descovey of the new.
That is actually debated now because there are archeological and historic records that pre-date Columbus' flipping adventure that indicate the disease already existed in Europe and the surrounds. I think there was even reference to a similar disease in either ancient Greece or Babylonia.
2020 fourth worst year in human history? What a joke
What year was Mark Zuckerberg Born? That’s gotta be on the list 🤔
Born or hatched?
I approve this message.
Appropriately enough, he was born in the year 1984.
Let’s not forget Trumps BD.
Lets go zuckerberg!
When was this filmed? Three days after this was posted on YT, the listed number of infections is a quarter milliard and fatalities have topped five million.
The flu of 1918 lasted longer than your sources/writers told you. My G Grandfather died from it in 1920 in Illinois when he was treating a small outbreak. From what I’ve read, there continued to be small outbreaks until about 1925.
What an excellent video for perspective in the scope of human suffering. To riff off of one of Simon’s most loved quotes, “the present is the best.“
great video.
The Bubonic Plague is still a thing. There were two casses of it in Santa Fe in 2019 and there was a lady in Albuquerque who died of it in 2017.
The difference is now we have effective medicine to treat it (which is why it doesn't really present a large concern as a pandemic pathogen).
I cannot believe how fast he is talking!
“Cocaine is a hell of a drug”
-Rick James
I can't believe how slow he is listening!
@@i-am-evil-morty6710 doesn't make sense lad..give up..
When you ask factboy what that mouth do
You should hear the narrator for DARK 5. He talks like he has 30 seconds to finish because he's in front of a firing squad. I had to stop listening to him because his hysterical, breathless delivery in an auctioneer's speed gave me an anxiety attack, no matter how interested I was in the subject...I always wonder if channel operators have ever heard of timing and pausing to build suspense and give people time to react to what they are hearing...
"The past was the worst" - Simon Whistler
I graduated elementary school in 1992 and I remember that we recognized it as the 500th anniversary of Columbus's journey.
01:27 - That kid, having a mammary meal, looks pretty damn strong for starving. 😂 I had to google the pic in question and he looks like a little bodybuilder!
1945 should have made the list! The only two nuclear weapons used in war were the most atrocious attack in history.
Japan lost far fewer civilians to the 2 bombs than an additional nine months of conventional bombing (including firebombing) + the major invasion (code name: Operation Downfall for the entire operation; subdivided into Operation Olympic planned to start Nov '45 and Operation Coronet in early '46 but would have been delayed by a typhoon.)
For reference see the firebombing of Dresden in February 1945 and of Tokyo in March 1945 with conventional high explosive bombs.
@@jonnunn4196 That does not make it fair by any means. The people that died were civilians.
Credibility was lost by putting 2020 in this list.
"give 2018 a break..."
How ironic
2020, you're having a laugh.
1929 shouldn't be that high but just goes to show you how much we rely on money, actually sounds really sad to me.
Not to downplay global warming too much, but it's interesting that almost all the worst times ever coincided with cooling and more ice.
That's nature saying, "chill out!"
Climate change is real. Man made? No.
@@maconp1119
Remember when Al Gore was convinced that Global Warming would soon kill us all?
Now we're experiencing the opposite. That short stint of Global Warming (around 2004ish) was in preparation for the Global COOLING we're now experiencing.
@@maconp1119
Also, look into HAARP. There's where to find some man-made weather & hurricanes & tornadoes.
*I am not for one minute disputing 'Climate Change/Global Warming' but would contest strongly that is is not caused by Humans, but a natural cycle that has occured over Millions of Years. Where I am sitting now [Midlands UK] a mere 12,000 Years ago was under ½ mile thick Ice Sheet. I kid you not Mammoth Lake nearby. All these **_Measures_** proposed to Halt or Reverse it are pathetic and will not make the slightest difference' The most stupid of all is halting what are now very efficient clean ICE Cars and replacing them with Dirty Electric that only the most wealthy can afford initially and have off road/Garage parking to enable them to recharge overnight (for a full recharge up to several days) Quite honestly I see this as a way to Tax the average person for the benefit of the wealthy who running an EV pay no Road Tax/Fuel Tax and even get a Government Grant when purchasing one. There is a £34 Billion Black Hole set to appear in the future and I dread the future for our Children/Grandchildren after the gigantic **-astronomical-** costs Covid19 has caused. Wait until 98% efficient Gas Boilers are prohibited and have to spend £15-20k on a Heat pump that is most **-useless-** inefficient in the Winter [cold] Months when little or no Solar Power and on a still day Zero Wind Power. Nuclear Fission may be the answer but until that time Quote "UK Government Advisor {Allegra Stratton} on Global Warming will continue using my elderly VW Diesel - say no more !*
I think you did all whole video on 536. Wish I could remember which one of your channels it was on.
It was called, "536. The worst year ever." Sideprojects. 2 months ago.
@@sandybarnes887 thank you.
@@joelb8653 you are most welcome. I'm glad I could help 😌
It was also covered on the channel Weird History. The name of the episode is "536: The Worst Year to Be Alive".
1949 the year MAO took rule in China. 200 +million dead, total destruction of a millenia old culture and 90% of the treasures of it, and continuing impact.
Simons next channel: The Past Is The Worst
Yes, that is sort of what his latest channel is about.
...i mean this bozo still tried to say 2020 was worse than 1918...
10:07 *I always soak my £1 Coin in White [Virgin} Vinegar for 5 Minutes and then use Dettol (or other Government approved) before entering any Supermarket [wearing a Crash Helmet & Approved Mask] what am I doing wrong as have been refused entry at many popular places to grab 100 Toilet Rolls and a bag of Spuds ?*
July 4th, 1997, my friend showed up to the part with a keg of near beer
Hope he wasn’t ever put in charge of getting beer again. My condolences.
Ouch!! 😧😮😲
The worst year. Like asking what was the worst minute of your day.
This was published in 2021, I think there was some recency bias to it.
The gene variant Delta32 that fights off plague and HIV would be a interesting vid for one of your many channels lol
Yes that would be interesting.
2020 wasn't even bad. Don't forget... The past was the worst!
No, the future is the worst, we just don't realize or know it yet.
2020 is the past 🤣
I actually thought 2020 was a great year. But then again, I didn't obsess over the pandemic and all the other events that happened last year.
@Dungeon Master I actually did get Covid last year, I just didn't want to let the pandemic dominate my life. I understand that last year was a bad year economically for billions of people, if not every person in the world, but if you choose to let one event dominate your life, than of course people are going to be miserable. My sister lived in Africa during most of the pandemic and the people there didn't obsess over it. They weren't scared on this disease like the media is, they treated it like every other disease they've faced and continued on life like they usually did.
@@jaytaylor629 The worst part about 2020 wasn't having to stay home and watch Netflix. It was the millions of lives prematurely lost.
My heart goes out to those affected in the years mentioned.
Yeah I'm sure the ones that died decades or centuries ago appreciate it /sarcasm.
Maybe 2020 could be put at number 9 or 10 on this list of the worst years in history (that we know of) and then it can count down to number 1.
Top ten ways humanity will /has screwed up the planet?
Now that youve made this video the universe is gonna laugh and give us a ten year long ww3 or some bs.
How prescient of you. We certainly seem to be working on that plan now. 🤔
The ten worst years in human history.... 2020-2021.
@Philip Greenwald
Agree! People always think that the worst years are the ones they personally experience, which is understandable, but we have a much better structure for propping up society now than the turn of the century era even, where there weren't the social services, doctors, insurance agents and so on, set up to intervene after disasters. People who volunteer for programs like doctors without borders are really the unsung, almost unnoticed heros of our age...they save thousands who would certainly die horrible deaths without aid...
Anything we can joke about isn’t as bad as anything we can’t joke about or anything we can ONLY joke about .
As much as I love you Simon, you need revision on the Russian Revolution.
There is one Ze Frank in my recommendations, drowning in a sea of Whistlers.
June 14th 1946. The worst day in human history.
Seriously? 2020 should not be anywhere on this list!
Yeah. In the context of this millennium, it was really bad, but nowhere near as bad as the widespread famines that used to happen.
If he hadn't included it, there would have 10x as many comments complaining that he didn't.
@@landofalwayswinter666 it doesn't deserve to be on this list, hell it wouldn't make top 50
2021: massive inflation, horrendous government overreach, mass government incompetence, supply chain crises; and deadly viruses.
''deadly virus'' yeah are you sure about that?
Missing 2019.....before the commies came in and 💩 on everything.
Government overreach has been a problem ever since the "Patriot" Act was implemented in 2001.
@@a_can_of_soda I won’t disagree with you there. It just seems that over the past three Presidents, it’s gotten worse. Especially with the current one.
@@theg.c.142 I didn’t miss it, it’s hard NOT to. I just didn’t want to create a long diatribe.
The audio balancing on Simon's videos has really gone downhill. He seems to be whisper speaking into the mic to the point where it is unintelligible at times, and then ads come on glaringly loud and clear as day. Please fix this issue as I love the content but watching has become massively inconvenient!
What's the name of the background music playing? Anyone?
1932 shouldn't be forgotten. There's the Holodomor in Ukraine along with famines in other parts of the Soviet Union, the dust bowl in America as well as the impact of the Great Depression worldwide. The rest of the list is solid, though I wonder if Genghis Khan may have qualified a worst year alone with his slaughter across Asia.
I'd like to see something on the time of the Sea People. I know a combination of things like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and war led to dark ages in Mediterranean area. Some cultures were wiped out, like the highly advanced Minoan civilization.
What the world needs to do now is boycott anything Chinese made, including companies that aren't Chinese but manufacture there. It is crazy an employee here spends their money not here nor with friendly places
Boycotting those in support of the Chinese is essential too. Hence why I buy local, to ensure I'm not helping those who wish to persecute me for my beliefs. Aka (The left)
Better throw away all of your Apple products then.
You would probably be unhappy with the cost of American-made products. Our labor is expensive.
@@StageRight123 Why single out Apple products? Nearly all tech products are made in China.
2020 was so bad i am still getting flashbacks to not working and getting free gov money to stay in my house and sometimes break the lockdown rules with 0 consequence. such hardship.
You clearly don’t live in Australia.
I recall while doing a course on pre history, & there was a volcanic eruption that put Mt Tambora to shame, from memory it occurred up to 20 000 years ago & wiped out most of all living species on the planet & was only discovered fairly recently in sedimentary records. I have searched online every now & then for a name & a time, but no luck, does anyone have any info on this ?.
Not a volcanic eruption but possibly you're thinking of the younger dryas impact hypothesis? Its a presumed comet impact that occurred about 12,500 years ago. There was massive, rapid climate change and almost all mega fauna in the americas went extinct.
Could be the Laacher See eruption, which is the volcanic alternative to the Younger Dryas impact theory, but that eruption only had a VEI of 6 compared to Tambora's 7.
Could be the Taupo Volcano, specifically the Oruanui eruption, which happened 27,000 years ago and had a VEI of 8.
Could be the Toba Volcano, which erupted 74,000 years ago and was even bigger than the Taupo eruption. This one is suspected of causing a major volcanic winter and causing population bottlenecks in a bunch of different species, which is why I'm including it here.
I think Simon said he was only using the time period where they had recorded history. (He didn't specify but I assume he meant some version of a written recod.)
You're awesome Simon you completely caught me off guard in the very beginning of the video with number 10 I expected you to have this list you know within the last hundred 200 years maybe but no you're like number 10 13 15 I was like what the f*** that caught me completely off guard that was awesome😂
What ever year hot pockets were invented
I'll take the 2020 pandemic. The past really was the worst.
The message at the end......🤣🤣🤣
The 30 years war was not religious. The demarcation lines simply do not fit EG Cardinal Richelieu who was the defacto leader of France was fighting with the protestants. If however you look, it was really the Hapsburghs vs everyone else.
For real 2020 on this list? Ummm ok then.
The fact that 2020 is even mentioned is proof of how privileged an era we live in, it didn’t even kill .1% of us but we view it as the worst year of our lives. We are blessed to be alive today
Fr, him putting that year in here low-key makes me dislike his channel. It shows he can't be objective.
10. 2020
9. 2020
8. 2020
7. 2020
6. 2020
5. 2020
4. 2020
3. 2020
2. 2020
*1. 2016*
Social media destroying social life, covid still a very real issue despite a vaccine, and now we have avian influenza (bird flu) again.....
I'd say 2021 is a very strong candidate.
Based on the structure of this list, it would count as a continuation of 2020.
2021 - F**king GPU prices
2021 is turning out to be a doozy so far.
1492 was the only situation in which you made a case for attributing all of the later ramifications to that one moment in time. Not consistent.
what about 100'000 BCE mount Toba? the entire Human population was reduced to less than 10'000
finally a decent video!
1492 number two ? what a joke of ranking, negative
Do an episode about yourself. I think that would be very interesting, like a blue bird landing on your finger after you wake up in the morning.
Yes! Simon should do a video on himself!
1 and 2 need to switch places....
How about the time where south and Central America were ravaged by small pox? Did that make the list?
As an effect of 1492, yes. I don't know if there's one specific smallpox year that could have been used.
@@brandonm949 yeah ok it was one sentance for like 20 million deaths
2020 on this list is hysteria.
Cant belive i lived in a year worse than black death, volcanic euroption, ww1, ww2, spanish flu 💀😱