|
|
|
|
Pandemics
|
Time Period |
Start |
End |
Event |
Location |
Description |
|
1300-1350 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1348 |
1349 |
Plague |
Europe |
The Black Death; Jews were blamed for causing Plague; Poland was largely spared. |
|
1350-1400 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1361- |
1361 |
Plague |
Europe |
|
|
|
1371 |
1371 |
Plague |
Europe |
|
|
|
1382 |
1382 |
Plague |
Europe |
|
|
1450-1500 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1462 |
1465 |
Plague |
Germany |
|
|
1600-1650 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1602 |
1602 |
Plague |
Prussia |
|
|
1650-1700 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1663 |
1668 |
Plaque |
Europe |
|
|
|
1668 |
1668 |
Plague |
Europe |
|
|
|
1679 |
1679 |
Plague |
Vienna |
|
|
|
1679 |
1679 |
Plague |
Vienna-Austria |
|
|
1700-1750 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1708 |
1709 |
Influenza |
Germany |
|
|
|
1709 |
1709 |
Plague |
Danzig (Gdansk) |
June - December (30,000 deaths) |
|
|
1711 |
1711 |
Plague |
Austria |
|
|
|
1712 |
1712 |
Influenza |
Germany |
April - July |
|
|
1729 |
1729 |
Influenza |
Vienna, Hungary, Poland, Germany |
High morbidity, low mortality |
|
|
1732 |
1732 |
Influenza |
Russia, Poland, Germany |
|
|
|
1738 |
1739 |
Plague |
Russia |
|
|
|
1740 |
1740 |
Typhus |
Central Germany |
|
|
|
1742 |
1742 |
Influenza |
Germany |
Spread to Western Europe |
|
1750-1800 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1762 |
1762 |
Influenza |
Europe |
Breslau (Wroclaw), Vienna, Hungary, Germany: low mortality |
|
|
1781 |
1782 |
Influenza |
Asia, Europe |
December 1781-China to Moscow; January 1782-St. Petersburg; February-Poland via Baltic; March-Northern Germany; April-Hungary; May-Austria, Prague, West Germany. Morbidity high, mortality low: Elderly and respiratory illnesses. |
|
|
1788 |
1789 |
Influenza |
Europe |
March 1788, Russia; April Vienna, Warsaw, Hungary; morbidity high, few deaths. |
|
1800-1850 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1807 |
1807 |
Typhus |
Danzig (Gdansk) |
|
|
|
1812 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Prussia |
|
|
|
1812 |
1813 |
Typhus |
Russia |
Napoleon’s Army |
|
|
1813 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Danzig (Gdansk), Germany |
Napoleon’s Army; 200,000 -300,000 deaths |
|
|
1813 |
1813 |
Typhus |
Torgau, Germany |
|
|
|
1813 |
1814 |
Typhus |
Mainz, Germany |
|
|
|
1820 |
1821 |
Famine |
Russia |
|
|
|
1829 |
1831 |
Cholera |
Russia |
Began in 1826 in India; in 1830, 37595 killed. By 1831 in Russian cities and towns (197,069 deaths in 1831); especially severe in Volhynia, Podolioa, Grodno, Vilna; brought to Poland by soldiers: Warsaw April 14, 1831; Hungary, June 1831 (100,000 deaths). |
|
|
1830 |
1831 |
Influenza |
Asia, Europe |
1829-began in China; November 1830 –Moscow; January 1831-St. Petersburg; February- Baltic; March-Warsaw; April-Breslau, Berlin, East Prussia; May- Budapest, Prague, Vienna; October-Hamburg. Low mortality |
|
|
1831 |
1832 |
Cholera |
Germany |
August 1831-from Poland to Berlin; October 1831-Hamburg |
|
|
1831 |
1831 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
Part of Asiatic Cholera pandemic |
|
|
1831 |
1831 |
Plague |
Moldova. Wallachia |
Plague merged with Cholera |
|
|
1833 |
1833 |
Famine |
Russia |
|
|
|
1836 |
1836 |
Floods |
Galicia |
Heavy floods |
|
|
1836 |
1837 |
Influenza |
Europe |
November 1836-Russia; December-Berlin, Hamburg. More deaths than previous pandemics. |
|
|
1839 |
1840 |
Famine |
Russia |
|
|
|
1843 |
1846 |
Famine |
Russia |
|
|
|
1847 |
1847 |
Cholera |
Galicia |
|
|
|
1847 |
1847 |
Typhus |
Glaicia |
Unknown fever |
|
|
1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Europe |
All over Europe, pandemic started in Asia in 1846. |
|
|
1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Russia |
Three million deaths |
|
|
1848 |
1848 |
Cholera |
Slocinky, Slovakia |
August – October |
|
1850-1900 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1850 |
1850 |
Plague |
Europe, Asia |
Pandemic |
|
|
1851 |
1852 |
Cholera |
Poland, Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia |
Spread to adjoining Russian provinces and Prussia |
|
|
1853 |
1959 |
Cholera |
Germany |
|
|
|
1853 |
1855 |