Unlike what people may think Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history More than two hundred years ago on April 10th 1815 Mount Tambora in Eastern Indonesia became a merciless killer It unleashed the most deadly volcanic eruption in human memory wiping out at least 117000 people And an entire civilization and its language disappeared But the killing didnt stop there It has now been proven that this eruption could have triggered an extraordinary and little known cataclysmic event worldwide climate change