EPIDEMIC Disease: Plague Estimated Death Toll: 100,000 Location: France The Great Plague of Marseille was the last of the significant European outbreaks of bubonic plague. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed a total of 100,000 people: 50,000 in...
EPIDEMIC Disease: Plague Estimated Death Toll: 76,000 Location: Austria The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers. From contemporary descriptions, the disease is believed to have been bubonic...
EPIDEMIC Disease: Plague Estimated Death Toll: 100,000 Location: England The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long time period of the Second Pandemic, an...
