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| 1 | 1655 | - 7 Apr 1655—22 May 1667: Pope Alexander VII
Fabio Chigi, born on 13 February 1599 in Siena, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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| 2 | 1665 | - 1665—1666: Great Plague of London
Bubonic plague. Killed an estimated 100,000 individuals
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| 3 | 1667 | - 20 Jun 1667—9 Dec 1669: Pope Clement IX
Giulio Rospigliosi, born on 28 January 1600 in Pistoia, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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| 4 | 1668 | - 1668—1668: France plague
Bubonic plague, killed 20,000 individuals.
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| 5 | 1670 | - 29 Apr 1670—22 Jul 1676: Pope Clement X
Emilio Bonaventura Altieri, born on 13 July 1590 in Rome, Papal States
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| 6 | 1676 | - 21 Sep 1676—12 Aug 1689: Pope Innocent XI
Benedetto Odescalchi, born on 16 May 1611 in Como, Duchy of Milan
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| 7 | 1677 | - 1677—1678: Boston smallpox epidemic
Smallpox epidemic that killed 750 to 1,000 residents of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, British North America
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| 8 | 1689 | - 3 Oct 1689—1 Feb 1691: Pope Alexander VIII
Pietro Vito Ottoboni, born on 22 April 1610 in Venice, Republic of Venice
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| 9 | 1691 | - 12 Jul 1691—27 Sep 1700: Pope Innocent XIII
Antonio Pignatelli, born on 13 March 1615 in Spinazzola, Kingdom of Naples
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| 10 | 1693 | - 1693—1693: Boston yellow fever epidemic
Killed 3,000 residents of Boston, Massachussetts.
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| 11 | 1699 | - 1699—1699: Charleston and Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic
Killed 300 in Charleston, 220 in Philadelphia.
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| 12 | 1700 | - 23 Nov 1700—19 Mar 1721: Pope Clement XI
Giovanni Francesco Albani, born on 23 July 1649 in Urbino, Papal States
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| 13 | 1702 | - 1702—1702: New York City yellow fever epidemic
Killed 500 residents of New York.
- 1702—1703: St. Lawrence Valley smallpox epidemic
Killed 300 settlers of New France along the Saint-Lawrence river valley.
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| 14 | 1713 | - 1713—1715: North America measles epidemic
Killed an unknow number of residents of the Thirteen Colonies and New France, Canada
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| 15 | 1720 | - 1720—1722: Great Plague of Marseille
Bubonic plague - over 100,000 dead in France.
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| 16 | 1721 | - 8 May 1721—7 Mar 1724: Pope Innocent XIII
Michelangelo dei Conti, born 13 May 1655 in Poli, Papal States
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| 17 | 1724 | - 29 May 1724—21 Feb 1730: Pope Benedict XIII
Pierfrancesco Orsini, O.P., born 2 February 1649 in Gravina in Puglia, Kingdom of Naples
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| 18 | 1730 | - 12 Jul 1730—6 Feb 1740: Pope Clement XII
Lorenzo Corsini, born 7 April 1652 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
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| 19 | 1732 | - 1732—1733: 1733 New France smallpox epidemic
An outbreak originating in Boston hit Louisbourg, on present-day Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Nearly 200 people died, many of them children. The rest of New France also suffered from a smallpox epidemic during this time.
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