What a crap year that was man, with that catastrophic earthquake on January 23rd. 830000 people died on one day. Let me repeat that.
EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE DIED IN ONE DAY IN A CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE.
Several villages were entirely destroyed, The entire town of Huaxian was razed. Every single building and house collapsed to the ground, crushing everyone beneath them, People died as far as 300 miles away from the epicenter. If you managed to survive the earthquake itself, you probably got buried alive in a landslide soon after. Entire families living in artificial caves lost their lives in a handful of minutes. The rare survivors were killed by rolling boulders or falling trees. In several regions surrounding Shannxi, as much as 60% of the population was killed...and the remaining 40% had nothing left to live in, no resources to survive, and no roads to flee the disaster. It took a lot more than the rest of that cursed year to bring back a semblant of livability to the area.
2016? Oh yeah. Some lady lost an election, the usual number of old musicians died, and something about a gorilla. Whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1556_Shaanxi_earthquake
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