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George Washington by Charles Willson Peale, 1776.. The New World of the Western Hemisphere was devastated by the 1775–1782 North American smallpox epidemic.Estimates based on remnant settlements say at least 130,000 people were estimated to have died in the epidemic that started in 1775.
From 1,800 persons in 1782, the total population of free blacks in Virginia increased to 12,766 (4.3 percent of blacks) in 1790, and to 30,570 in 1810; the percentage change was from free blacks' comprising less than one percent of the total black population in Virginia, to 7.2 percent by 1810, even as the overall population increased. [105]
Great Northern War plague outbreak (part of the second plague pandemic) 1710–1712 Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania: Bubonic plague: 164,000 [94] [95] 1713–1715 North America measles epidemic 1713–1715 Thirteen Colonies and New France, Canada Measles: Unknown [96] [97] Great Plague of Marseille (part of the second plague pandemic) 1720–1722 France
The third plague pandemic was a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan, China in 1855. [50] This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents in the 1890s and first years of the 1900s, and ultimately led to more than 12,000,000 deaths in India and China, with about 10,000,000 killed in India alone.
The Mandan villages consisted of 12 to 100 lodges and were well organized with a hierarchy of leaders. In 1750, there were about nine large Mandan villages, however, by the start of the 1800s, the smallpox epidemic decreased the tribe to only two villages. By 1837, there were about 100 to 150 Mandan survivors. [3]
Public fascination with the pony swim, inaugurated that year at the narrowest point of the channel between the two islands, led to increased attendance in the following years. [34] Except during the war years of 1943 and 1944, and the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, the carnival, pony swim and auction have occurred every year since. [35] [25]
The history of Richmond, Virginia, as a modern city, dates to the early 17th century, and is crucial to the development of the colony of Virginia, the American Revolutionary War, and the Civil War. After Reconstruction , Richmond's location at the falls of the James River helped it develop a diversified economy and become a land transportation hub.
The history of Norfolk, Virginia as a modern settlement begins in 1636. The city was named after the English county of Norfolk [1] [2] and was formally incorporated in 1736. . The city was burned by orders of the outgoing Virginia governor Lord Dunmore in 1776 during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), although it was soon rebu