1350

Bubonic Plague - World wide

1499

Bubonic Plague - London

1507

Fever  (lasted from 1507 - 1550)

1551

Influenza

1555

Famine and Weakness caused by failed crops due to heavy rains.

1556

Bubonic Plague (this was an extreme event and lasted until 1563)

1563

Bubonic Plague (London)   - Worst outbreak ever, subsequent outbreaks in 1578, 1593, 1603, 1625, 1636 & 1665, which killed thousands.

1578

Bubonic Plague

1586

Bubonic Plague Chesterfield

1591

Acute Distress

1593

Bubonic Plague

1596

Famine caused by failed harvests, and epidemics began

1603

Bubonic Plague

1612

Bubonic Plague

1623

Bad Harvest – this continued for 2 years

1625

Bubonic Plague

1630

Plague at worst (many thousands died)

1631

Bubonic Plague

1633 - 1634

Smallpox

1636

Bubonic Plague

1654

Bubonic Plague

1665

Bubonic Plague (extreme)

1723

Influenza - World wide

1723

Famine  – This was due to poor harvests and resultant epidemics, and lasted about seven years

1732 -1733

Influenza

1743

Influenza

1751 – 1753

Smallpox

1762

Influenza

1767

Influenza

1775 - 1776

Influenza - World Wide

1782

Influenza

1785

Influenza

1788 – 1789

Influenza

1793

Diphtheria

1796

Smallpox

1803

Influenza

1816 – 1819

Typhus and Smallpox

1825 – 1826

Smallpox

1826

Cholera - World Wide and lasted until 1837

1830

Influenza and Cholera

1831

Cholera – This reached the UK in 1831, but began world wide in 1826

1836 – 1837

Influenza

1837 – 1838

Typhus

1847

Typhus and Influenza

1848

Cholera - World Wide

1849

Cholera

1853

Cholera   - This started in Birmingham

1857

Influenza - World Wide

1865

Cholera

1871

Smallpox

1889

Influenza - World Wide

1899 – 1902

British typhoid epidemic in the Boer War

1901

Smallpox

1917

Spanish Influenza World Wide

1918

Influenza

1947

Smallpox – This lasted for 2 years

1950

Polio World Wide