Great Plague of London, 1665

Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague of London. The Great Plague (1665-66) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England (part of modern-day United Kingdom). The Great Plague killed an estimated 100, 000 people, about 15% of London's population. The 1664-66 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic but was caused by a particularly virulent strain of the disease; it was remembered afterwards as the great plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400 year timespan of the Second Pandemic

Restrictions Only for Ireland and United Kingdom

1665 Bubonic Collecting Epidemic Infectious Pandemic Pestilence Plague Worldwide Zoonotic

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