What the records say
- When
- 1679
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 48.21° N, 16.37° E
- Description
- epidemic
- Cause
- Yersinia pestis
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Great Plague of Vienna
1679 outbreak of plague in Vienna, 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 plague, which is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, carried by fleas associated with the black rat and other rodents.
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