18+ Mount Tambora Explosion 1815 And The Summer Of 1816 Background. Several weeks before mount tambora erupted, raffles became the so raffles' scientific curiosity was piqued when the cannonlike explosions from the southeast continued throughout the night * * * far from tambora and the island of java, a different sort of shock greeted the rulers and citizens of. Eruption of the volcano at mount tambora in 1815 was the largest volcanic eruption of the 19th century.
In april of 1815, mount tambora exploded in a powerful eruption that killed tens of thousands of people on the indonesian island of sumbawa.
The summer of 1816 was not like any summer people could remember. Tambora in indonesia in april, 1815. The magnitude of the explosion itself is difficult to fathom. Tambora ejected immense amounts of volcanic ash into the wild weather events in the summer of 1816.