Epidemic

Great Plague of London

1665 – 1666 · 51.51° N, 0.13° W

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When
1665 – 1666
Kind
Epidemic
Coordinates
51.51° N, 0.13° W
Description
pandemic lasting from 1665 to 1666, last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England
Deaths
75000
Cause
Yersinia pestis

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Great Plague of London

Epidemic of bubonic plague, 1665–66

The Great Plague of London, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the most recent major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. It happened within the centuries-long Second Pandemic, a period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics that originated in Central Asia in 1331, and included related diseases such as pneumonic plague and septicemic plague, which lasted until 1750.

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