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Wednesday, 29 October 2025
1721 Boston smallpox outbreak in Massachusetts Bay Colony killing 844 people 
1729 Measles in Thirteen Colonies
1730 Yellow fever in Spain
1732 influenza in Thirteen Colonies
1733 smallpox in Canada, New France
1738 great Plague of 1738 in Balkans killing 50,000 people
1738 smallpox in Thirteen Colonies
1739 measles in Thirteen Colonies
1743 Plague in Italy
1747 Measles in Thirteen Colonies
1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1755 Smallpox in North America
1759 measles in North America
1761 Influenza in North America, West Indies
1763 Smallpox in North America, present-day Pittsburgh area
1770 russian plague of 1770-1772 in Russia killing 50,000 people
1770 Smallpox in Pacific Northwest natives
1772 Measles in North America
1772 persian Plague in Persia killing 2 million+ people
1775 influenza in England
1778 dengue fever in Spain
1780 North American smallpox epidemic in Plains Indians
1788 smallpox in Pueblo Indians
1788 Measles in United States
1789 Smallpox in New South Wales, Australia
1791 members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
1793 Yellow fever attacks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States killing several thousand people
1793 Yellow fever attacks Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, killing several thousand people
1793 influenza and epidemic typhus in United States
1793 yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, resurgences in United States
1796 first smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1799 edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination is introduced
1800 dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
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