Tweetybirdgenealogy
ILLNESS AND YEAR OF OCCCURENCE
YEAR AILMENT PLACE
1350* Bubonic Plague World wide
1499 Bubonic Plague London (UK)
1507* "Fever" UK (lasted from 1507 - 1550)
1551 Influenza UK
1555 Famine UK (rains bought famine and weakness)
1556* Bubonic Plague UK (this was an extreme event and lasted
until
1563)
1578 Bubonic Plague UK
1586 Bubonic Plague Chesterfield UK (all Harvests failed)
1591 Acute Distress UK (as a result of above)
1593 Bubonic Plague UK
1596* Famine UK (harvests failed and epidemics began)
1603 Bubonic Plague UK
1612 Bubonic Plague UK
1617* Smallpox US (amongst the Native Indians)
1623 Bad Harvest UK (lasted 2 years)
1625* Bubonic Plague UK
1630 Plague at worst UK (many thousands died)
1631 Bubonic Plague UK
1633 Smallpox US (Native Indians)
1636* Bubonic Plague UK
1647 Yellow Fever West Indies
1648 Smallpox US
1648 Whooping Cough US
1654 Bubonic Plague UK
1657 Measles Boston, US
1662 Smallpox New York, US
1665* Bubonic Plague UK (extreme)
1668 Yellow Fever New York, US
1677* Smallpox Boston, US
1687 Measles Boston, US
1690 Yellow Fever NY US
1699 Yellow Fever SC US
1702* Yellow Fever NY US
1702 Scarlet Fever Boston US
1706 Yellow Fever SC US
1713 Measles Boston US
1721 Smallpox US
1723 Influenza World wide
1723* Famine UK (lasted seven years - poor harvests
and
resultant epidemics)
1728 Yellow Fever SC US
1729 Measles Boston US
1732 Yellow Fever SC US
1732 Influenza SC US
1735* Diphtheria US
1735* Scarlet Fever New England US (4 years)
1738 Smallpox Carolina US
1739* Measles Boston US
1743* Yellow Fever NY US
1747 Measles CT, NY, PA, SC, US
1759 Measles North America
1761 Influenza US and West Indies
1763* Smallpox Boston, US
1772 Measles US
1775* Influenza World Wide
1783 Bilious Disorder US ( this was fatal and thought to be
similar
to Dysentery)
1788 Measles PA, NY, US
1789 Influenza US
1792* Yellow Fever US (lasted 7 years)
1793 Unknown Fever PA, US
1793 Influenza Vermont, Virginia, US
1802 Smallpox Nebraska, US
1803 Yellow Fever NY US
1820* Fever US
1826* Cholera World Wide (this lasted until 1837)
1826* Dengue Fever US and West Indies
1829* Malaria US
1831* Cholera UK ( began world wide in 1826)
1831* Cholera US
1832 Influenza US
1833 Cholera Ohio US
1834 Cholera NY US
1837 Typhus PA US
1837 Smallpox US (Native Indians)
1841 Yellow Fever NO US
1847 Measles US (Native Indians)
1847 Yellow Fever NO US
1848* Cholera World Wide
1850 Yellow Fever US
1850* Dengue Fever US
1851 Cholera IL US
1852 Yellow Fever NO US
1853 Cholera UK (began in Birmingham)
1855 Yellow Fever US
1857* Influenza World Wide
1860 Smallpox Pennsylvania US
1861 Epidemics US (Civil War - numerous infectious
diseases)
1865 Smallpox US
1865 Cholera US
1865 Typhus US
1868* Smallpox US ( lasted 7 years)
1873 Cholera US
1878 Yellow Fever FL US
1885 Typhoid PA US
1886 Yellow Fever FL US
1889* Influenza World Wide
1893 Polio US (first known outbreak)
1900* Plague US
1901* Smallpox US
1907* Polio US (lasted 9 years)
1917 Spanish Influenza World Wide (worst ever outbreak)
1931 Polio US
1942* Polio US (lasted 11 years)
1947* Smallpox UK (lasted 2 years)
1950 Polio World Wide.
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