List of historical plagues
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This list contains famous or well documented outbreaks of plagues or disease. They are examined in individual entries:
- Great Plague of Athens (430–427 BC)
- causal agent: bubonic plague/smallpox/measles/typhus/anthrax/typhoid?
- Antonine Plague (165–180)
- causal agent: smallpox/measles?
- Plague of Cyprian (250)
- causal agent: smallpox/measles?
- Plague of Justinian (541–542)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Plague of Emmaus (18 A.H./639 A.D.)
- causal agent: unknown
- Plague of Constantinople (747–748)
- The "Black Death" of 1347–51:
- Great Plague of England (1348–1350)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Ireland (1348–1351)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Scotland (1348–1350)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Russia (1349–1353)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of England (1348–1350)
- Great Plague of Iceland (1402–1404)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague (not bubonic plague, as there were no rats in Iceland)
- Plague of 1575, Italy, Sicily and segments of Northern Europe (1571–1576)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- London Plague (1592–1594)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Italian Plague of 1629-1631 or Great Plague of Milan (1629–1631)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Seville (1649)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of London (1664–1665)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Vienna (1679–1680s)
- causal agent: viral hemorrhagic plague or possibly bubonic plague
- Great Plague of Marseille (1720–1722)
- causal agent: possibly bubonic plague?
- Plague Riot in Moscow (1771)
- causal agent: possibly bubonic plague?
- The Third Pandemic, originated in China (1855–1950s)
- causal agent: bubonic plague.
[change] See also
- Bubonic plague
- Epidemic
- List of epidemics
- Pandemic
- Influenza Pandemic of 1918 or Spanish Flu