The Climatic – Environmental Crisis of the 1830s in Hungary
The Climatic – Environmental Crisis of the 1830s in Hungary

Summary/Abstract: Throughout my climate history research I tried to answer two questions. Did the 1830s really produce a row of years with extreme weather and may it be hypothesized that the permanently extreme weather (and the economical difficulties caused by it) increased the problems of the farmer nobility, and also their inclination of a reform? To make the detailed climate historical reconstruction of the 1830s, I basically used the corpus of Antal Réthly and Florian Holovics. Summing up the results of the research, both questions can be given a positive answer. The 1830s truly produced extreme weather throughout the months and seasons of the decade. It can be rightfully supposed that the weather anomaly and as its evidence, the economical difficulties favourably influenced the inclination of farming noblemen, who played an important role in political life, towards an economic and social reform.

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