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The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille , France , in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.
In 1720, at the onset of the Great Plague of Marseille, Roze proposed his services to the local authorities, the échevins. Strong with his experience from Greece, he was made General Commissioner for the Rive-Neuve neighbourhood.
The plague killed two-thirds of the inhabitants of Helsinki, [53] and claimed a third of Stockholm's population. [54] Western Europe's last major epidemic occurred in 1720 in Marseilles, [45] in Central Europe the last major outbreaks happened during the plague during the Great Northern War, and in Eastern Europe during the Russian plague of ...
Great Plague of Marseille (part of the second plague pandemic) 1720–1722 France Bubonic plague: 100,000+ [98] 1721 Boston smallpox outbreak: 1721–1722 Massachusetts Bay Colony: Smallpox: 844 [99] 1730 Cádiz yellow fever epidemic 1730 Cádiz, Spain Yellow fever: 2,200 [100] 1732–1733 Thirteen Colonies influenza epidemic 1732–1733 ...
The plague during the Great Northern War falls within the second pandemic, which by the late 17th century had its final recurrence in western Europe (e.g. the Great Plague of London 1666–68) and, in the 18th century final recurrences in the rest of Europe (e.g. the plague during the Great Northern War in the area around the Baltic sea, the ...
Great Plague of 1738; Great Plague of Marseille; I. Influx of disease in the Caribbean; N. 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic; P. Picardy sweat; R. 1770 ...
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Bubonic plague would return regularly, but with fewer fatalities, until the 18th century. The last epidemic in France was the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720. [14] The Spanish erected a cordon while the French army surrounded Provence using a third of its infantry and a quarter of its cavalry. [15]