What the records say
- When
- 1737 – 1740
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 42.00° N, 22.00° E
- Description
- Historical event related to an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Balkan Peninsula
- Deaths
- 50000
- Cause
- bubonic plague
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Great Plague of 1738
Bubonic plague outbreak in the Balkan Peninsula
The Great Plague of 1738 was an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738 and 1743 that affected areas of the Habsburg Empire, now in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Slovakia, Czechia, and Austria. Despite the name, the plague occurred for at least 5 years, from 1738 to 1743.
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