Great Plague of London, 1665
Title page from, The History of the Plague in London by Daniel Defoe, 1722. The author was trapped in London during the plague and gives a first person account of the horrors of the plague. 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
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