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The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people—almost a quarter of London's population—in 18 months. [2] [3] The plague was caused by the Yersinia pestis bacterium, [4] which is usually transmitted to a human by the bite of a flea or louse. [5] The 1665–66 epidemic was on a much smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic. It ...
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Between 1620 and 1621, Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 people to it, with outbreaks returning in 1654 to 1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740 to 1742. [37] Plague remained a major event in Ottoman society until the second quarter of the 19th century.
1668 France plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1668 France: Bubonic plague: 40,000 [82] 1675–1676 Malta plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1675–1676 Malta: Bubonic plague: 11,300 [83] 1676–1685 Spain plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1676–1685 Spain Bubonic plague: Unknown [84] 1677–1678 Boston ...
The 1623 Malta plague outbreak is contained after killing around 40 people on the island of Malta. [47] ... 1620. Aelbert Cuyp Winston Churchill John Evelyn. January 1.
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 ...
1620 23 January – John Croke, judge and Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1553) 1 March – Thomas Campion, poet and composer (born 1567) 16 May – William Adams, navigator and samurai (born 1564) 1621 3 May – Elizabeth Bacon, aristocrat (born c. 1541) 2 July – Thomas Harriot, astronomer and mathematician (born c. 1560)
The overall risk of death for all types of plague in the U.S., according to Mayo Clinic, is around 11%. The most important factor for survival is that medical attention begins promptly.
Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 inhabitants to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [178] Cairo suffered more than fifty plague epidemics within 150 years from the plague's first appearance, with the final outbreak of the second pandemic there in the 1840s. [115]