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Many researchers find their family members disappear from the historic records suddenly with no apparent reason. Many of these disappearances can be attributed to epidemics. This is a listing of the most well known of the epidemics in Britain and the United States.
|
Start |
End |
Disease/ Cause |
Location |
|
1350 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
Worldwide |
|
1499 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
London UK |
|
1507 |
|
Fever |
UK |
|
1551 |
|
Influenza |
UK |
|
1555 |
1563 |
Famine |
UK |
|
1556 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1578 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1586 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
Chesterfield UK |
|
1591 |
|
Acute Distress |
UK |
|
1593 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1596 |
|
Famine |
UK |
|
1603 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1612 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1617 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1623 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1625 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1626 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1628 |
1631 |
Smallpox |
New England USA |
|
1630 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1631 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1633 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1636 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1637 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1638 |
|
Smallpox & Spotted Fever |
New England USA |
|
1647 |
|
Yellow Fever |
West Indies |
|
1648 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1648 |
|
Whooping Cough |
USA |
|
1648 |
1649 |
Smallpox |
Massachusetts Bay Colony USA |
|
1654 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1657 |
1658 |
Measles |
Boston USA |
|
1659 |
|
Diphtheria |
Massachusetts Bay Colony USA |
|
1662 |
|
Smallpox |
New York USA |
|
1665 |
|
Bubonic Plague |
UK |
|
1668 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York USA |
|
1677 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston USA |
|
1677 |
1678 |
Smallpox |
Charlestown & Boston USA |
|
1679 |
1680 |
Smallpox |
Virginia USA |
|
1687 |
|
Measles |
Boston USA |
|
1689 |
1690 |
Smallpox |
New England USA |
|
1690 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York USA |
|
1693 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1696 |
|
Smallpox |
Jamestown, VA USA |
|
1699 |
|
Smallpox |
South Carolina USA |
|
1699 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Charleston South Carolina & Philadelphia USA |
|
1702 |
|
Scarlet Fever |
Boston USA |
|
1702 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York USA |
|
1702 |
1703 |
Smallpox |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1706 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Charleston South Carolina USA |
|
1711 |
1712 |
Smallpox |
South Carolina USA |
|
1713 |
|
Measles |
Boston USA |
|
1715 |
1725 |
Smallpox |
Most of the Colonies |
|
1721 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston USA |
|
1723 |
|
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1723 |
1730 |
Famine |
UK |
|
1723 |
1730 |
Smallpox |
Boston, New York, Philadelphia |
|
1728 |
|
Yellow Fever |
South Carolina USA |
|
1729 |
|
Measles |
Boston USA |
|
1732 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Charleston & New York |
|
1732 |
|
Yellow Fever |
South Carolina USA |
|
1732 |
1733 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1734 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Virginia USA |
|
1735 |
1740 |
Smallpox, Scarlet Fever & Diphtheria |
New England USA |
|
1738 |
|
Smallpox |
South Carolina USA |
|
1739 |
1740 |
Measles |
Boston USA |
|
1741 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Virginia USA |
|
1743 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York USA |
|
1747 |
|
Measles |
Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania & South Carolina USA |
|
1752 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1759 |
|
Measles |
North America |
|
1760 |
1761 |
Smallpox |
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Charleston USA |
|
1761 |
|
Influenza |
North America & West Indies |
|
1762 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia USA |
|
1763 |
|
Diphtheria |
Philadelphia USA |
|
1764 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1769 |
|
Diphtheria |
New York USA |
|
1772 |
|
Measles |
North America |
|
1772 |
1774 |
Smallpox |
New England USA |
|
1775 |
|
Unknown Epidemic |
North America |
|
1775 |
1776 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1778 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1781 |
1782 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1783 |
|
Bilious Disorder |
Dover Delaware USA |
|
1788 |
|
Measles |
Philadelphia and New York USA |
|
1789 |
|
Influenza |
USA |
|
1792 |
|
Smallpox |
Boston, MA USA |
|
1792 |
1799 |
Yellow Fever |
USA |
|
1793 |
|
A "putrid" fever and Influenza |
Vermont USA |
|
1793 |
|
Influenza |
Virginia USA |
|
1793 |
|
Influenza and a "Putrid Fever" |
Vermont USA |
|
1793 |
|
Many Unexplained Deaths |
Pennsylvania USA |
|
1793 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia USA |
|
1794 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA |
|
1796 |
1797 |
Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA |
|
1798 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia USA |
|
1802 |
|
Smallpox |
Nebraska USA |
|
1803 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York USA |
|
1820 |
1823 |
Fever |
Nationwide USA |
|
1822 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New York and New Orleans USA |
|
1826 |
|
Cholera |
Worldwide |
|
1826 |
|
Dengue Fever |
USA and West Indies |
|
1829 |
|
Malaria |
USA |
|
1831 |
|
Cholera |
UK |
|
1831 |
|
Cholera |
USA |
|
1831 |
1832 |
Asiatic Cholera |
Nationwide USA |
|
1832 |
|
Asiatic Cholera |
New Orleans USA |
|
1832 |
|
Cholera |
New York City & other major cities USA |
|
1832 |
|
Influenza |
USA |
|
1833 |
|
Cholera |
Columbus, Ohio USA |
|
1834 |
|
Cholera |
New York City USA |
|
1837 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1837 |
|
Typhus |
Philadelphia USA |
|
1841 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Nationwide USA |
|
1847 |
|
Measles |
USA |
|
1847 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New Orleans USA |
|
1847 |
1848 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1848 |
|
Cholera |
Worldwide |
|
1848 |
1849 |
Cholera |
North America |
|
1849 |
|
Cholera |
New York USA |
|
1849 |
1850 |
Cholera |
New Orleans USA |
|
1850 |
|
Cholera |
Alabama, New York |
|
1850 |
|
Dengue Fever |
USA |
|
1850 |
|
Influenza |
USA |
|
1850 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Nationwide USA |
|
1850 |
1851 |
Influenza |
North America |
|
1851 |
|
Cholera |
Coles County, IL The Great Plains
States & Missouri, USA |
|
1852 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Nationwide USA |
|
1853 |
|
Cholera |
Birmingham UK |
|
1853 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New Orleans USA |
|
1855 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Nationwide USA |
|
1857 |
1859 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1860 |
1861 |
Smallpox |
Pennsylvania USA |
|
1865 |
|
Cholera |
USA |
|
1865 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1865 |
|
Typhus |
USA |
|
1865 |
1873 |
A series of recurring epidemics of Smallpox, Cholera, Typhus, Typhoid,
Scarlet Fever & Yellow Fever |
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, &
Washington D.C. USA |
|
1868 |
1875 |
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1873 |
|
Cholera |
USA |
|
1873 |
1875 |
Influenza |
UK Europe & North America |
|
1878 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New Orleans USA |
|
1878 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Memphis, TN USA |
|
1885 |
|
Typhoid |
Plymouth, Pennsylvania USA |
|
1886 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Plymouth, Pennsylvania USA |
|
1886 |
|
Yellow Fever |
Jacksonville, FL USA |
|
1889 |
|
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1893 |
|
Polio |
USA |
|
1900 |
|
Plague |
USA |
|
1901 |
|
Smallpox |
USA |
|
1905 |
|
Yellow Fever |
New Orleans USA |
|
1907 |
1916 |
Polio |
US |
|
1917 |
1918 |
Influenza |
Worldwide |
|
1931 |
|
Polio |
USA |
|
1942 |
|
Polio |
USA |
(It should be noted that some diseases were endemic in certain areas
and, even when not listed as an "epidemic", they frequently occurred. This was the case with yellow fever and cholera
in the Southern United States.)
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