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Date |
Event(s) |
1 | 1699 | - 1699—1699: Charleston and Philadelphia yellow fever epidemic
Killed 300 in Charleston, 220 in Philadelphia.
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2 | 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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3 | 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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4 | 1720 | - 1720—1722: Great Plague of Marseille
Bubonic plague - over 100,000 dead in France.
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5 | 1918 | - 1 Mar 1918—1 Apr 1920: Spanish Flu Epidemic
The worldwide Spanish Flu epidemic killed at least 17 million people worldwide.
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