PANDEMICS IN HISTORY By BENJAMIN RIVANO 3000 BCE PREHISTORIC 430 BCE ATHENS 165 ANTONINE PLAGUE 250 CYPRIAN PLAGUE 541 JUSTINIAN PLAGUE 1100 11TH CENTURY: LEPROSY 1346 THE Black Death 1492 THE COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE 1655 THE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON 1720 GREAT PLAGUE OF MARSEILLE 1770 RUSSIAN PLAGUE 1793 PHILADELPHIA YELLOW FEVER 1817 FIRST CHOLERA PANDEMIC 1855 THE THIRD PLAGUE PANDEMIC 1875 FIJI MEASLES PANDEMIC 1889 FLU PANDEMIC 1916 AMERICAN POLIO EPIDEMIC 1918 SPANISH FLU 1957 ASIAN FLU 1981 HIV/AIDS 2003 SARS 2009 H1N1 - SWINE FLU PANDEMIC 2014 EBOLA WEST AFRICAN EBOLA EPIDEMIC 2015 ZIKA VIRUS 2019 COVID-19