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Plague of 698–701 (part of first plague pandemic) 698–701 Byzantine Empire, West Asia, Syria, Mesopotamia: Bubonic plague: Unknown [47] 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic: 735–737 Japan Smallpox: 2 million (approx. 1 ⁄ 3 of Japanese population) [15] [48] Plague of 746–747 (part of first plague pandemic) 746–747 Byzantine Empire ...
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 ...
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]
Plague, one of the deadliest bacterial infections in human history, caused an estimated 50 million deaths in Europe during the Middle Ages when it was known as the Black Death.
The 1582 Tenerife plague epidemic (also 1582 San Cristóbal de La Laguna plague epidemic) was an outbreak of bubonic plague that occurred between 1582 and 1583 on the island of Tenerife, Spain. It is currently believed to have caused between 5,000 and 9,000 deaths on an island with fewer than 20,000 inhabitants at that time (approximately 25-45 ...
Health officials announced this week that a resident of Deschutes County — a rural part of Oregon — was diagnosed with plague, marking the state's first human case in more than eight years.
The Italian plague of 1629–1631, also referred to as the Great Plague of Milan, was part of the second plague pandemic that began with the Black Death in 1348 and ended in the 18th century. One of two major outbreaks in Italy during the 17th century, it affected northern and central Italy and resulted in at least 280,000 deaths, with some ...
1620: Emperor Ferdinand II defeats the Bohemian rebels in the Battle of White Mountain. 1620: The Brownist Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Cape Cod. 1620–1621: Polish-Ottoman War over Moldavia. 1620: Bethlen Gabor allies with the Ottomans and an invasion of Moldavia takes place. The Polish suffer a disaster at Cecora on the River Prut.