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The outbreak of the plague was caused because of the bacterium associated with other plague outbreaks before and since the Great Plague of London that was called Yersinia pestis. -
It began in the London suburb of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and the greatest devastation remained on the outskirts of the city, in Stepney, Shoreditch, Clerkenwell, Cripplegate, and Westminster, quarters where the poor were dense. -
it was a massive epidemic outbreak that killed between 70,000 and 100,000 people in England, and more than a fifth of the population of London. Historically, the disease has been identified as bubonic plague, an infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by rat fleas. -
King Charles II and his court fled from London in the early
summer and did not return until the following February;
Parliament kept a short session at Oxford. -
City records indicate that some 68,596
people died during the epidemic, though the actual number of deaths is suspected to have exceeded 100,000 out of a total population estimated at 460,000.
The outbreak was caused by Yersinia pestis, the bacterium associated with other plague, outbreaks before and since the Great Plague of London. -
The new year would bring with it the Great Fire of 1666, which incinerated vast swathes of the city.
For many Londoners, it was another sign from God.
War, plague and fire: the classics… and they had all suffered in rapid sequence.
After the fire, the plague also died down, but Vanessa Harding thinks that trying to link these two events is probably inaccurate. -
On there was no epidemic of plague in any part of the country. -
England, though sporadic cases appeared in bills of mortality up to 1670. The disappearance of plague from London has been attributed to the Great Fire of London in September 1666, but it also subsided in other cities without such cause. -
England, though sporadic cases appeared in bills of mortality up to 1679. The disappearance of plague from London has been attributed to the Great Fire of London in September 1666, but it
also subsided in other cities without such cause. -
Effective quarantine that was carried out in this year to stop the spread of plague, to the existence of a new outbreak. Scholars generally agree that the cessation of plague in England was spontaneous. -
Fictional story, with a style similar to a journalistic or historical genre, probably based on the diaries of Defoe's uncle who was an eyewitness to the bubonic plague, the great plague of London, includes features of likelihood, definition of neighborhoods, casualty lists, streets and houses.