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The dancing plague of 1518, or dance epidemic of 1518 (French: Épidémie dansante de 1518), was a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400 people took to dancing for weeks.
Dancing mania on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, a 1642 engraving by Hendrick Hondius after a 1564 drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St. John's Dance, tarantism and St. Vitus' Dance) was a social phenomenon that may have had biological causes, which occurred primarily in mainland Europe between the 14th and 17th ...
The Dancing Mania has also been referenced in multiple 20th and 21st century research articles on the dancing plague. [4] [12] The Dancing Plague was also cited in a 1880 British Medical Journal article in which the author A. Brabazon expands upon the dancing plague and describes his findings on the use of bath mineral waters as a historical ...
Witch trials in the early modern period from 1450 to 1750 and especially from 1580 to 1630.; Dancing plague of 1518 – a case of dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (then part of the Holy Roman Empire) in July 1518 wherein numerous people took to dancing for days.
The dancing plague of 1518. 1483 – Hans Grüninger printer in business. [10] 1504 – visit by King Maximilian I to the Strasbourg cannon foundry. [11] 1518 – Dancing plague. 1521 – St. Thomas finished. [2] 1523 – Protestant Reformation (approximate date). [2] 1538 Lutheran Gymnasium founded. University of Strasbourg founded.
Justus Hecker. Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker (5 January 1795, in Erfurt – 11 May 1850, in Berlin) was a German physician and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time.
Tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.. Year 1518 was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar.Within much of Christian Europe, New Year's Day was celebrated on January 1, the rule in the Roman Empire since 45 BC, and in 1518, the year ran from January 1, 1518 to December 31, 1518.
Early documented cases of Schäfflertanz are dated by 1702 when the Münich magistrate approved the performance of the dance as a well-established tradition. [1] [2] However, for a long time the date 1517 was prevalent in the literature, following the 1830 book Der Schäffler-tanz in Münchhen [3] by Anton Baumgartner (1761–1831), who originated the discredited legend that the tradition ...