Great Plague of London, 1665

Great Plague of London, 1665

Detail from the title page of, "The History of the Plague in London" by Daniel Defoe, 1722. The author was trapped in London during the plague and gives a first person account of the horrors of the plague.The Great Plague (1665-66) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England (part of modern-day United Kingdom). The Great Plague killed an estimated 100,000 people, about 15% of London's population. The 1664-66 epidemic was on a far smaller scale than the earlier Black Death pandemic but was caused by a particularly virulent strain of the disease; it was remembered afterwards as the "great" plague mainly because it was the last widespread outbreak of bubonic plague in England during the 400 year timespan of the Second Pandemic.

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40.9 x 20.0 cm | 16.1 x 7.9 in (300 dpi)