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Pandemics

Time Period

Start

End

Event

Location

Description

1300-1350

 

 

 

 

 

 

1348

1349

Plague

Europe

The Black Death; Jews were blamed for causing Plague; Poland was largely spared.

1350-1400

 

 

 

 

 

 

1361-

1361

Plague

Europe

 

 

1371

1371

Plague

Europe

 

 

1382

1382

Plague

Europe

 

1450-1500

 

 

 

 

 

 

1462

1465

Plague

Germany

 

1600-1650

 

 

 

 

 

 

1602

1602

Plague

Prussia

 

1650-1700

 

 

 

 

 

 

1663

1668

Plaque

Europe

 

 

1668

1668

Plague

Europe

 

 

1679

1679

Plague

Vienna

 

 

1679

1679

Plague

Vienna-Austria

 

1700-1750

 

 

 

 

 

 

1708

1709

Influenza

Germany

 

 

1709

1709

Plague

Danzig (Gdansk)

June - December (30,000 deaths)

 

1711

1711

Plague

Austria

 

 

1712

1712

Influenza

Germany

April - July

 

1729

1729

Influenza

Vienna, Hungary, Poland, Germany

High morbidity, low mortality

 

1732

1732

Influenza

Russia, Poland, Germany

 

 

1738

1739

Plague

Russia

 

 

1740

1740

Typhus

Central Germany

 

 

1742

1742

Influenza

Germany

Spread to Western Europe

1750-1800

 

 

 

 

 

                       

1762

1762

Influenza

Europe

Breslau (Wroclaw), Vienna, Hungary, Germany: low mortality

 

1781

1782

Influenza

Asia, Europe

December 1781-China to Moscow; January 1782-St. Petersburg; February-Poland via Baltic;  March-Northern Germany; April-Hungary; May-Austria, Prague, West Germany. Morbidity high, mortality low: Elderly and respiratory illnesses.

 

1788

1789

Influenza

Europe

March 1788, Russia; April Vienna, Warsaw, Hungary; morbidity high, few deaths.

1800-1850

 

 

 

 

 

 

1807

1807

Typhus

Danzig (Gdansk)

 

 

1812

1814

Typhus

Prussia

 

 

1812

1813

Typhus

Russia

Napoleon’s Army

 

1813

1814

Typhus

Danzig (Gdansk), Germany

Napoleon’s Army; 200,000 -300,000 deaths

 

1813

1813

Typhus

Torgau, Germany

 

 

1813

1814

Typhus

Mainz, Germany

 

 

1820

1821

Famine

Russia

 

 

1829

1831

Cholera

Russia

Began in 1826 in India; in 1830, 37595 killed. By 1831 in Russian cities and towns (197,069 deaths in 1831); especially severe in Volhynia, Podolioa, Grodno, Vilna; brought to Poland by soldiers: Warsaw April 14, 1831; Hungary, June 1831 (100,000 deaths).

 

1830

1831

Influenza

Asia, Europe

1829-began in China; November 1830 –Moscow; January 1831-St. Petersburg; February- Baltic; March-Warsaw; April-Breslau, Berlin, East Prussia; May- Budapest, Prague, Vienna; October-Hamburg. Low mortality

 

1831

1832

Cholera

Germany

August 1831-from Poland to Berlin; October 1831-Hamburg

 

1831

1831

Cholera

Galicia

Part of Asiatic Cholera pandemic

 

1831

1831

Plague

Moldova. Wallachia

Plague merged with Cholera

 

1833

1833

Famine

Russia

 

 

1836

1836

Floods

Galicia

Heavy floods

 

1836

1837

Influenza

Europe

November 1836-Russia; December-Berlin, Hamburg. More deaths than previous pandemics.

 

1839

1840

Famine

Russia

 

 

1843

1846

Famine

Russia

 

 

1847

1847

Cholera

Galicia

 

 

1847

1847

Typhus

Glaicia

Unknown fever

 

1848

1848

Cholera

Europe

All over Europe, pandemic started in Asia in 1846.

 

1848

1848

Cholera

Russia

Three million deaths

 

1848

1848

Cholera

Slocinky, Slovakia

August – October

1850-1900

 

 

 

 

 

 

1850

1850

Plague

Europe, Asia

Pandemic

 

1851

1852

Cholera

Poland, Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia

Spread to adjoining Russian provinces and Prussia

 

1853

1959

Cholera

Germany

 

 

1853

1855

Famine

Galicia

The Great Famine

 

1854

1856

Dysentery

Crimea (Southern Ukraine )

Crimean War

 

1854

1856

Cholera

Crimea (Southern Ukraine

Crimean War

 

1854

1856

Scurvy

Crimea (Southern Ukraine)

Crimean War

 

1854

1854

Cholera

Galicia

The Wielka Cholera (The Great Cholera)

 

1854

1856

Typhus

Crimea (Southern Ukraine)

Crimean War

 

1855

1855

Cholera

Nizna, Slovakia

August 1855-began in Nizna, Orava Region ending in October.

 

1865

1865

Cholera

Rumania, Bucovina, Russia

 

 

1866

1866

Cholera

Poznan

July – August

 

1866

1866

Cholera

Slovinky, Slovakia

October – November

 

1866

1867

Cholera

Germany

Rhineland-Palatinate, Westphalia

 

1866

1866

Cholera

Russia

90,000 deaths

 

1867

1867

Cholera

Europe

Russia, Germany (115,000 deaths), Austria (80,000 deaths), Hungary (30,000 deaths).

 

1868

1869

Cholera

Russia

August 1869-Kiev

 

1869

1869

Cholera

Russia

 

 

1869

1870

Famine

Northern Poland

 

 

1870

1872

Smallpox

Northern Germany, Belgium, Holland,Austria

1871-Northern Germany (162,000 deaths)

 

1870

1875

Smallpox

Europe

 

 

1870

1870

Cholera

Russia

 

 

1871

1871

Cholera

Germany

 

 

1871

1871

Cholera

Rumania, Bulgaria, Prussia, Galilzia

 

 

1873

1873

Cholera

Galicia

The Little Cholera

 

1873

1873

Cholera

Slovinky, Slovakia

 

 

1873

1873

Cholera

Europe

Germany (33,000 deaths), Hungary (190,000 deaths)

 

1889

1890

Influenza

Asia, Europe

Mid-November 1889-Central Europe; late November-Gdansk, Warsaw, Berlin; by December most of Europe. Morbidity 1/3-1/2. Overall mortality 0.75-1 death per 1000 (Highest death toll of any 19th century disease).

 

1890

1891

Famine

Russia

 

 

1892

1893

Cholera

Russia

1893-Volhynia-Podolsk

 

1892

`1892

Famine

Russia

 

 

1892

1892

Cholera

Germany

Summer-Hamburg (142,000 deaths or 13 % of population).

1900-1950

 

 

 

 

 

 

1909

1909

Cholera

Hungary

 

 

1910

1910

Cholera

Russia

June 1910-Eastern Ukraine (230,000 cases with 110,000 deaths-case fatality rate 45 %) Ekateinoslav (18,894 cases); Kiev (4077 cases).

 

1914

1918

Cholera

Austria

WW I

 

1915

1922

Typhus

Russia

 

 

1915

1822

Cholera

Russia

July-August-troops retreating from Poland and Galicia; Volhynia, Minsk, Mogilev and Grodno.

 

1918

1919

Influenza

World Wide

30 million deaths

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