Page 3: Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1743  Plague in Italy   

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  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  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   

1801  Bubonic plague in Ottoman Empire, Egypt   

1803  Yellow fever in United States   

1812  ottoman plague epidemic in Ottoman Empire killing 300,000+ people   

1813  malta plague epidemic in Malta killing 4,500 people   

1813  caragea's plague in Romania killing 60,000 people   

1816  typhus in Ireland   

1816  First cholera pandemic in Asia, Europe killing 100,000+ people   

1829  groningen epidemic in Netherlands killing 2,800 people   

1829  Smallpox in South Australia   

1829  Bubonic plague in Iran   

1829  second cholera pandemic in Asia, Europe, North America killing 100,000+ people   

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