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Pandemics
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Time Period |
Start |
End |
Event |
Location |
Description |
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1300-1350 |
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1348 |
1349 |
Plague |
Europe |
The Black Death; Jews were blamed for causing Plague; Poland was largely spared. |
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1350-1400 |
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1361- |
1361 |
Plague |
Europe |
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1371 |
1371 |
Plague |
Europe |
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1382 |
1382 |
Plague |
Europe |
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1450-1500 |
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1462 |
1465 |
Plague |
Germany |
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1600-1650 |
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1602 |
1602 |
Plague |
Prussia |
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1650-1700 |
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1663 |
1668 |
Plaque |
Europe |
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1668 |
1668 |
Plague |
Europe |
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1679 |
1679 |
Plague |
Vienna |
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1679 |
1679 |
Plague |
Vienna-Austria |
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1700-1750 |
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1708 |
1709 |
Influenza |
Germany |
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1709 |
1709 |
Plague |
Danzig (Gdansk) |
June - December (30,000 deaths) |
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1711 |
1711 |
Plague |
Austria |
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1712 |
1712 |
Influenza |
Germany |
April - July |
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1729 |
1729 |
Influenza |
Vienna, Hungary, Poland, Germany |
High morbidity, low mortality |
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1732 |
1732 |
Influenza |
Russia, Poland, Germany |
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1738 |
1739 |
Plague |
Russia |
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1740 |
1740 |
Typhus |
Central Germany |
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1742 |
1742 |
Influenza |
Germany |
Spread to Western Europe |
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1750-1800 |
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1762 |
1762 |
Influenza |
Europe |
Breslau (Wroclaw), Vienna, Hungary, Germany: low mortality |
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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. |
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1788 |
1789 |
Influenza |
Europe |
March 1788, Russia; April Vienna, Warsaw, Hungary; morbidity high, few deaths. |
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1800-1850 |
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1807 |
1807 |
Typhus |
Danzig (Gdansk) |
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1812 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Prussia |
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1812 |
1813 |
Typhus |
Russia |
Napoleon’s Army |
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1813 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Danzig (Gdansk), Germany |
Napoleon’s Army; 200,000 -300,000 deaths |
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1813 |
1813 |
Typhus |
Torgau, Germany |
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1813 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Mainz, Germany |
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1820 |
1821 |
Famine |
Russia |
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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). |
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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 |
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1831 |
1832 |
Cholera |
Germany |
August 1831-from Poland to Berlin; October 1831-Hamburg |
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1831 |
1831 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
Part of Asiatic Cholera pandemic |
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1831 |
1831 |
Plague |
Moldova. Wallachia |
Plague merged with Cholera |
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1833 |
1833 |
Famine |
Russia |
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1836 |
1836 |
Floods |
Galicia |
Heavy floods |
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1836 |
1837 |
Influenza |
Europe |
November 1836-Russia; December-Berlin, Hamburg. More deaths than previous pandemics. |
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1839 |
1840 |
Famine |
Russia |
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1843 |
1846 |
Famine |
Russia |
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1847 |
1847 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
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1847 |
1847 |
Typhus |
Glaicia |
Unknown fever |
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1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Europe |
All over Europe, pandemic started in Asia in 1846. |
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1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Russia |
Three million deaths |
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1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Slocinky, Slovakia |
August – October |
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1850-1900 |
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1850 |
1850 |
Plague |
Europe, Asia |
Pandemic |
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1851 |
1852 |
Cholera |
Poland, Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia |
Spread to adjoining Russian provinces and Prussia |
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1853 |
1959 |
Cholera |
Germany |
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1853 |
1855 |
Famine |
Galicia |
The Great Famine |
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1854 |
1856 |
Dysentery |
Crimea (Southern Ukraine ) |
Crimean War |
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1854 |
1856 |
Cholera |
Crimea (Southern Ukraine |
Crimean War |
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1854 |
1856 |
Scurvy |
Crimea (Southern Ukraine) |
Crimean War |
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1854 |
1854 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
The Wielka Cholera (The Great Cholera) |
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1854 |
1856 |
Typhus |
Crimea (Southern Ukraine) |
Crimean War |
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1855 |
1855 |
Cholera |
Nizna, Slovakia |
August 1855-began in Nizna, Orava Region ending in October. |
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1865 |
1865 |
Cholera |
Rumania, Bucovina, Russia |
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1866 |
1866 |
Cholera |
Poznan |
July – August |
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1866 |
1866 |
Cholera |
Slovinky, Slovakia |
October – November |
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1866 |
1867 |
Cholera |
Germany |
Rhineland-Palatinate, Westphalia |
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1866 |
1866 |
Cholera |
Russia |
90,000 deaths |
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1867 |
1867 |
Cholera |
Europe |
Russia, Germany (115,000 deaths), Austria (80,000 deaths), Hungary (30,000 deaths). |
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1868 |
1869 |
Cholera |
Russia |
August 1869-Kiev |
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1869 |
1869 |
Cholera |
Russia |
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1869 |
1870 |
Famine |
Northern Poland |
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1870 |
1872 |
Smallpox |
Northern Germany, Belgium, Holland,Austria |
1871-Northern Germany (162,000 deaths) |
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1870 |
1875 |
Smallpox |
Europe |
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1870 |
1870 |
Cholera |
Russia |
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1871 |
1871 |
Cholera |
Germany |
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1871 |
1871 |
Cholera |
Rumania, Bulgaria, Prussia, Galilzia |
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1873 |
1873 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
The Little Cholera |
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1873 |
1873 |
Cholera |
Slovinky, Slovakia |
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1873 |
1873 |
Cholera |
Europe |
Germany (33,000 deaths), Hungary (190,000 deaths) |
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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). |
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1890 |
1891 |
Famine |
Russia |
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1892 |
1893 |
Cholera |
Russia |
1893-Volhynia-Podolsk |
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1892 |
`1892 |
Famine |
Russia |
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1892 |
1892 |
Cholera |
Germany |
Summer-Hamburg (142,000 deaths or 13 % of population). |
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1900-1950 |
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1909 |
1909 |
Cholera |
Hungary |
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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). |
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1914 |
1918 |
Cholera |
Austria |
WW I |
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1915 |
1922 |
Typhus |
Russia |
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1915 |
1822 |
Cholera |
Russia |
July-August-troops retreating from Poland and Galicia; Volhynia, Minsk, Mogilev and Grodno. |
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1918 |
1919 |
Influenza |
World Wide |
30 million deaths |
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