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The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic , a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331 (the first year of the Black Death ), and included related diseases ...
The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world. [55] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
During the Great Plague of 1665 the area of Derby, England, fell victim to the bubonic plague epidemic, with many deaths. [1] Some areas of Derby still carry names that record the 1665 visitation such as Blagreaves Lane which was Black Graves Lane, while Dead Man's Lane speaks for itself.
The history of the plague in the village began in 1665 when a flea-infested bundle of cloth arrived from London for Alexander Hadfield, the local tailor. [16] Within a week his assistant George Viccars, noticing the bundle was damp, had opened it up. [17] Before long he was dead and more began dying in the household soon after. [18]
Illustration of corpse collection during the 1665 plague. In 1945, the syndicated radio programme The Weird Circle adapted the novel into a condensed 30-minute drama.; The 1979 Mexican film El Año de la Peste (The Year of the Plague), directed by Mexican director Felipe Cazals from a screenplay written by Gabriel García Márquez, was based on A Journal of the Plague Year.
1665–1666 England Bubonic plague: 100,000 [80] [81] 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 ...
T he plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...
7 July – the King and court leave London to avoid the plague, moving first to Salisbury, then (from 25 September) Oxford. 2 August – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch naval victory at the Battle of Vågen off Norway. 21 September – consecration of new chapel at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Christopher Wren's first completed work of architecture.