Plague - Historical Plagues

Historical Plagues

• List of epidemics
• Plagues of Egypt, the 10 calamities that God inflicted on Egypt in the book of Exodus
• Plague of Athens, a devastating epidemic which hit Athens in ancient Greece in 430 BC
• Antonine Plague, an ancient pandemic in 165–189 AD brought to the Roman Empire by troops returning from campaigns in the Near East
• Plague of Justinian, a pandemic in 541–542 AD in the Byzantine Empire
• The Black Death, the Eurasian pandemic beginning in the 14th century
• Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20% of London's population in 1665–1666
• Plague Riot, a riot in Moscow in 1771 caused by an outbreak of bubonic plague
• Third Pandemic, a major plague pandemic that began in China in 1855