Great Plague
1665 London catastrophe
The Great Plague was a devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in London in 1665–1666, killing roughly 100,000 people—perhaps a quarter of the city's population.
It was the last major epidemic of plague in England.
The term sometimes refers to other severe plague outbreaks, but without qualification typically means the London epidemic.
- Black DeathMedieval bubonic plague pandemic
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- bubonicOf groin-node swellings
- LondonEngland's capital city
- 1665Seventeenth-century date
pestilence · death · mass graves · rats · fleas · quarantine · bills · mortality · fever · boils · miasma · corpses · carts · crosses · red cross · doors · red · bring
- epidemicsepidemic, pandemic, outbreak, disease, Black Death
- 1660sCharles II, Louis XIV, Paradise Lost, Royal Society, Rembrandt
- medical historyHippocrates, germ theory, bloodletting, Galen, four humors
- plague historyBlack Death, Yersinia pestis, buboes, mass graves, lazaretto
- plaguesBlack Death, pestilence, pandemic, epidemic, buboes
- English RestorationCharles II, Glorious Revolution, William of Orange, Roundheads, monarchy
Great Plagueperfect health
Complete physical wellbeing
wellness · vitality · longevity · robust health · flourishing
Great Plaguesmallpox eradication
Complete global destruction of variola
Great Plaguebaby boom
Period of high births
population explosion · Golden Age · post-war recovery · abundance
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