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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 ...
This was much lower than the mortality rate of 10–20 percent witnessed in Bristol's Plague epidemics of 1565, 1575, 1603–1604 and 1645. [101] The Great Plague of 1665–66 was the last major outbreak in England. It is best known for the famous Great Plague of London, which killed 100,000 people (20 per cent of the population) in the capital ...
The Great Plague epidemic of 1665 is believed to have killed a sixth of London's inhabitants, or 80,000 people, [155] and it is sometimes suggested that the fire saved lives in the long run by burning down so much unsanitary housing with their rats and their fleas which transmitted the plague, as plague epidemics did not recur in London after ...
The Great Plague of London, in 1665, killed up to 100,000 people. A plague doctor and his typical apparel during the 17th-century outbreak The plague repeatedly returned to haunt Europe and the Mediterranean throughout the 14th to 17th centuries. [ 169 ]
1637 London plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1636–1637 London and Westminster, England Bubonic plague: 10,400 [73] Great Plague in the late Ming dynasty (part of the second plague pandemic) 1633–1644 China: Bubonic plague: 200,000+ [74] [75] Great Plague of Seville (part of the second plague pandemic) 1647–1652 Spain ...
The Great Plague was immediately followed by another catastrophe, albeit one which helped to put an end to the plague. On the Sunday, 2 September 1666 the Great Fire of London broke out at one o'clock in the morning at a bakery in Pudding Lane in the southern part of the City. Fanned by an eastern wind the fire spread, and efforts to arrest it ...
The Great Plague of London in 1665–1666 is generally recognized as one of the last major outbreaks. [37] A plague epidemic known as the Great Northern War plague outbreak, that followed the Great Northern War (1700–1721, Sweden v. Russia and allies) wiped out almost 1/3 of the population in the region.
The most general outbreaks in Tudor and Stuart England seem to have begun in 1498, 1535, 1543, 1563, 1589, 1603, 1625, and 1636, and ended with the Great Plague of London in 1665. [36] In 1466, perhaps 40,000 people died of plague in Paris. [37] During the 16th and 17th centuries, plague visited Paris for almost one year out of three. [38]