Byron was also the host of the celebrated ghost-story competition involving himself, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori at the Villa Diodati on the banks of Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816.

The unusual coolness of the winter of 1815 – 1816 and of the following summer was primarily due to the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, in April 1815.

One extreme was the so-called Year Without a Summer of 1816, one of several years during the 1810s in which numerous crops failed during freakish summer cold snaps after volcanic eruptions reduced incoming sunlight.

Byron also composed an enigmatic fragmentary story concerning the mysterious fate of an aristocrat named Augustus Darvell whilst journeying in the Orient — as his contribution to the famous ghost story competition at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva in the summer of 1816, between him, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley and John William Polidori ( who was Byron's personal physician ).

Snow has been recorded in Somerset County in every month except July, although local lore has it that even July saw snow in 1816, " the year without a summer.

The Year Without a Summer ( also known as the Poverty Year, The Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death ) was the year 1816, in which severe summer climate abnormalities caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0. 4 – 0. 7 ° C ( 0. 7 – 1. 3 ° F ), resulting in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere.

In the spring and summer of 1816, a persistent " dry fog " was observed in the northeastern US.

It was reported that in the summer of 1816 corn ripened so badly that no more than a quarter of it was usable for food.

In July 1816 " incessant rainfall " during that " wet, ungenial summer " forced Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and their friends to stay indoors for much of their Swiss holiday.

In the summer of 1816, Montferrand landed in St. Petersburg, carrying a recommendation letter from Abraham-Louis Breguet.

Very rarely, they may form in summer, though it would have to be an abnormally cold summer, such as the summer of 1816 in the Northeast United States of America.

Maria Monk ( June 27, 1816 – summer of 1849 ) was a Canadian woman who claimed to have been a nun who had been sexually exploited in her convent.

Lewis visited Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley at Geneva, Switzerland in the summer of 1816 and recounted five ghost stories which Shelley recorded in his " Journal at Geneva ( including ghost stories ) and on return to England, 1816 ", beginning with the entry for 18 August, which was published posthumously.

Construction of the fort lasted through the summer of 1816.

In 1816 ..." the year without a summer ", there was an early spring thaw and the streams that feed Canadarago were running high.

The story has its genesis in the summer of 1816, the Year Without a Summer, when Europe and parts of North America underwent a severe climate abnormality.

In the summer of 1816 Lord Byron and John William Polidori were staying at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva and were visited by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Claire Clairmont.

Then in the summer of 1816 Wiedemann came to Stolberg and stayed 8 days to outline an ambitious project.

" Hymn to Intellectual Beauty " was written during the summer of 1816 while Percy and Mary Shelley stayed with Lord Byron near Lake Geneva, Switzerland.

1816, the year in which the poem was written, was called " the year without summer ", as strange weather and an inexplicable darkness caused record-cold temperatures across Europe, especially in Geneva.

In 1816 ( the " Year without a summer ") severe weather resulted in poor harvests, leading to further food shortages during the winter of 1816 — 1817.

In addition, by starting the Peace Corps now we will be able to begin training young men and women for overseas duty this summer with the objective of placing them in overseas positions by late fall.

a stream or pond which is attractive in the springtime may become stagnant or dry in late summer.

In most places, there are two generations a year, a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer.

When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

In late summer migratory workers lived five and six to a room in these.

Just before game time, Robinson's pretty wife, Connie informed him that an addition to the family can be expected late next summer.

Harvest was in the late spring and during the dry summer months.

The bulb is then dormant until late summer.

From the dry ground in late summer ( August in zone 7 ) each bulb produces one or two leafless stems 30 – 60 cm tall, each of which bears a cluster of 2 to 12 funnel-shaped flowers at their tops.

He was forced to resign his managing general partner post in the late summer of 2004.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

Locals had been calling the unseen track-maker " Big Foot " since the late summer, which Humboldt Times columnist Andrew Genzoli shortened to " Bigfoot " in his article.

The bay is subject to algae blooms in late summer which are a naturally occurring phenomenon and do not indicate pollution other than from agricultural runoff.

These birds are generally solitary or found in pairs early in the year, but family groups are common in the late summer and winter roosts may have two dozen or more birds in a single covey.

Freezes begin early ( late September ) and cease late ( late May ) in the season, and even summer nights are crisp.

This makes the chaparral most vulnerable to fire in the late summer and fall.

In the late summer of 1984, the Soviet Union also prevented a visit to West Germany by East German leader Erich Honecker.

Flash floods are a constant threat ; destructive hurricanes can be expected during the late summer months

In the late summer he left for Nicomedia.

Precipitation averages per year and is heaviest in late summer.

His financial situation improved considerably and in 1897, Munch bought himself a summer house, a small fisherman's cabin built in the late 18th century, in the small town of Åsgårdstrand in Norway.

For this reason Henry summoned Eleanor to Normandy in the late summer of 1183.

Commercial production began in late summer of 1932 by the Ro-Pat-In Corporation ( Electro-Patent-Instrument Company Los Angeles ), a partnership of Beauchamp, Adolph Rickenbacker ( originally Rickenbacher ), and Paul Barth.