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William III of England: 8 March 1702: The king of England was riding his horse when it stumbled on a molehill. William fell and broke his collarbone, then contracted pneumonia and died several days later. After he died, Jacobites were said to have toasted in the mole's honour, calling it "the little gentleman in the black velvet waistcoat". [15 ...
There were also epidemics that occurred locally and did not spread to national levels, notably in 18th century England. [4] These local epidemics included fevers, dysentery, smallpox, starvation, typhoid fever, under-nutrition, cholera, malaria. [4] By the end of the era, disease and malnutrition were no longer the main leading causes of death. [2]
The weekly returns were based on death certificates, and therefore much more accurate than the bills of mortality based on burials. When the Registrar General began weekly returns in 1840 to the Metropolis defined in the 1831 census were added the parishes of Bow, Camberwell, Fulham, Hammersmith and the Greenwich Poor Law Union.
Alice Molland, who was the last woman in England to be condemned to death for witchcraft in 1685, ... Mark Stoyle, professor of early modern history at the UK’s University of Southampton ...
They continued work through the early modern period up until the Registration Act of 1836, which called for all births, deaths, and marriages in England to be well-documented. [1] They served as important figures to the parish although they were often neglected in records as many people began to question their credibility later on during the ...
The 1603 London plague epidemic was the first of the 17th century and marked the transition from the Tudor to the Stuart period.. While sources vary as to the exact number of people killed, around one-fifth of London's population is estimated to have died. [3]
Researchers spent five years studying bones from medieval Cambridge, England, to see what life was like for a cross section of the city’s survivors of the Black Death.
Sweating sickness, also known as the sweats, English sweating sickness, English sweat or sudor anglicus in Latin, was a mysterious and contagious disease that struck England and later continental Europe in a series of epidemics beginning in 1485.