Large death rates in certain years of our can sometimes be attributed to epidemics.
Year
Ailment - Place - Extra info
1350 Bubonic
Plague - WW*
1499 Bubonic Plague - UK London
1507 "Fever" - UK* - 1507-1551
1551 Influenza - UK
1555 Famine - UK - rains brought famine and weakness
1556 Bubonic Plague - UK* 1556-1563 extreme
1578 Bubonic Plague - UK
1586 Bubonic Plague - UK* Chesterfield - harvest failed
1591 Acute Distress - UK
1593 Bubonic Plague - UK
1596 Famine - UK* - harvests failed & epidemics
1603 Bubonic Plague - UK
1612 Bubonic Plague - UK
1617 Smallpox - US* - native Indians
1623 Bad years - UK 2 years
1625 Bubonic Plague - UK
1626 Bubonic Plague - UK
1630 Very bad year - UK - many died
1631 Bubonic Plague - UK
1633 Smallpox - US* - native Indians
1636 Bubonic Plague - UK
1637 Bubonic Plague - UK
1647 Yellow Fever - West Indies
1648 Smallpox - US
1648 Whooping Cough - US
1654 Bubonic Plague - UK
1657 Measles - US Boston
1662 Smallpox - US New York
1665 Bubonic Plague - UK - extreme
1666 Bubonic Plague - UK Eyam
1668 Yellow Fever - US New York
1677 Smallpox - US* Boston
1687 Measles - US Boston
1690 Yellow Fever - US New York
1699 Yellow Fever - US South Carolina
1702 Yellow Fever - US* New York
1702 Scarlet Fever - US Boston
1706 Yellow Fever - US South Carolina
1713 Measles - US Boston
1721 Smallpox - US Boston
1723 Influenza - WW
1723 Famine - UK* - 7 years poor harvests & epidemics
1728 Yellow Fever - US South Carolina
1729 Measles - US Boston
1732 Yellow Fever - US South Carolina
1732 Influenza - WW*
1735 Diphtheria/Scarlet Fever - US* - 4 years - New England
1738 Smallpox - US South Carolina
1739 Measles - US* Boston
1743 Yellow Fever - US* New York
1747 Measles - US Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
1759 Measles - US North America
1761 Influenza - US and West Indies
1763 Smallpox - US* Boston
1772 Measles - US
1775 Influenza - WW*
1783 Bilious Disorder - US - fatal
1788 Measles - US Pennsylvania, New York
1789 Influenza - US
1792 Yellow Fever - US* - 7 years
1793 Unknown - US Pennsylvania
1793 Influenza - US Vermont, Virginia
1802 Smallpox - US Nebraska
1803 Yellow Fever - US New York
1820 Fever - US*
1826 Cholera - WW * - 1826-1837
1826 Dengue Fever - US* and West Indies
1829 Malaria - US*
1831 Cholera - UK - started WW - 1826
1831 Cholera - US*
1832 Influenza - US
1833 Cholera - US Ohio
1834 Cholera - US New York
1837 Typhus - US Pennsylvania
1837 Smallpox - US Indians
1841 Yellow Fever - US
1847 Measles - US - Indians
1847 Yellow Fever - US
1847 Influenza - WW*
1848 Cholera - WW*
1850 Yellow Fever - US
1850 Influenza - US*
1850 Dengue Fever - US*
1851 Cholera - US Illinois
1852 Yellow Fever - US
1853 Cholera Birmingham? - UK
1855 Yellow Fever - US
1857 Influenza - WW*
1860 Smallpox - US* Pennsylvania
1861 Epidemics - US* - civil war numerous infectious diseases
1865 Smallpox - US*
1865 Cholera - US
1865 Typhus - US*
1868 Smallpox - US* - 7 years
1873 Influenza - UK* North America and Europe
1873 Cholera - US
1878 Yellow Fever - US
1885 Typhoid - US Pennsylvania
1886 Yellow Fever - US Florida
1889 Influenza WW*
1893 Polio - US - 1st known outbreak
1900 Plague - US*
1901 Smallpox - US*
1907 Polio US * - 9 years
1917 Influenza - WW* - worst ever
1931 Polio - US
1942 Polio - US -11 years
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epidemic is spread over more than one year
UK - United Kingdom
US - United States
WW - world wide
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