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This epidemic has been reported to have been the cause of death for approximately "60% of the European population". [10] During the end of the 19th century, there was a plague, known as the Modern Plague, that started in China and spread to different cities through ports, reportedly causing roughly ten million deaths. [10]
In the mid-19th century, the mortality caused by scarlet fever rose in England and Wales. [55] The major outbreak in England and Wales took place during 1825–1885 with high mortality marking this as remarkable. [52] There were several other notable outbreaks across Europe, South America, and the United States in the 19th century. [53]
Death toll Percentage of population lost Years Location 2 1918 Flu: Influenza A/H1N1: 17–100 million 1–5.4% of global population [4] 1918–1920 Worldwide 2 Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague 15–100 million 25–60% of European population [5] 541–549 North Africa, Europe, and Western Asia 3 HIV/AIDS pandemic: HIV/AIDS: 44 million (as ...
The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...
19th-century deaths from infectious disease (3 C) M. 19th-century Christian martyrs (4 C, 11 P) S. 19th-century suicides (11 C, 1 P) Pages in category "19th-century ...
Modern transport infrastructure assisted the spread of the 1889 pandemic. The 19 largest European countries, including the Russian Empire, had about 200,000 km of railroads, and transatlantic travel by sea took less than six days (not significantly different from current travel time by air, given the timescale of the global spread of a pandemic). [11]
His death is considered the only credible case of death-by-meteorite. [45] [46] [47] Isaack Rabbanovitch August 1891: A bear walked into the barkeep's inn in Vilna, Russia (now part of Lithuania) and picked up a keg of vodka. When he tried to take it back, he was hugged to death by the intoxicated bear along with his two sons and daughter.
The third cholera pandemic (1846–1860) was the third major outbreak of cholera originating in India in the 19th century that reached far beyond its borders, which researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) believe may have started as early as 1837 and lasted until 1863. [1]