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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

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