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jimnyc
03-20-2020, 03:12 PM
In 1720 was the outbreak of "Great Plague of Marseille"

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The Great Plague of Marseille was the last of the significant European outbreaks of bubonic plague. Arriving in Marseille, France in 1720, the disease killed a total of 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.

Despite the large number of deaths, Marseille recovered quickly from the plague outbreak. Economic activity took only a few years to recover, as trade expanded to the West Indies and Latin America. By 1765, the growing population was back at its pre-1720 level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_Marseille


In 1820, the world was in the midst of the "Cholera Pandemic"

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The first cholera pandemic (1817–24), also known as the first Asiatic cholera pandemic or Asiatic cholera, began near the city of Calcutta and spread throughout Southeast Asia to the Middle East, eastern Africa and the Mediterranean coast. While cholera had spread across India many times previously, this outbreak went further; it reached as far as China and the Mediterranean Sea before subsiding. Hundreds of thousands of people died as a result of this pandemic, including many British soldiers, which attracted European attention. This was the first of several cholera pandemics to sweep through Asia and Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This first pandemic spread over an unprecedented range of territory, affecting almost every country in Asia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1817%E2%80%931824_cholera_pandemic


Then once again in 1920, The Spanish flue was from 1918-1920 - and the Galveston Texas Plague hit in 1920

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/the-galveston-plague-of-1920-6725992

Gunny
03-20-2020, 09:41 PM
Awesome. So long as you aren't one of the ones that die :)