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    Has anyone come across a list of of plagues and large scale ailments in date order for the UK at all. I found one but it has no references and the site is now defunct so I can't verify the dates - and there are rather a lot of them. I have googled for hours but there doesn't seem to be a comprehensive list anywhere.
    Marion
    There is no absolute truth - and no final answer.

  • #2
    not a list but this seems quite comprehensive

    Julie
    They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

    .......I find dead people

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    • #3
      or this one

      Julie
      They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

      .......I find dead people

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      • #4
        Found this list a few years ago, cant remember where, but i copied it for future reference.

        1066 Battle of Hastings
        1189 Third Crusade
        1296 -1333 Wars of Scottish Independence
        1337 – 1453 Hundred Years' War
        1415 Battle of Agincourt
        1455 – 1485 Wars of the Roses
        1485-1551 Sweating sickness in London killing several thousand
        1485 Battle of Bosworth Field - last English king to die in combat
        149? – 1559 Italian Wars
        1550/56 Bubonic plague
        1598 – 1648 Eighty Years' War
        1588 Spanish Armada
        1603/30 The Plantation of Ireland.....Land taken from non English sympathisers (mostly Catholic) and given to those who supported the English crown. Mass immigration of Lowland Scots to Ulster forming the beginning of the Ulster Scots people. (Protestant)
        1607 River Severn Estuary Tsunami. 200 Killed
        1624 130,000+ British children shipped to various places in the Empire (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) from the ages of 3 -14, for 350 years, ending only in 1974. Some were British Home children, many were not.
        1632/4 Small pox
        1639/40 Bishops' Wars
        1642 – 1649 British Civil War
        1652/54 First Anglo-Dutch War
        1654 – 1660 Anglo-Spanish War
        1665/7 Second Anglo-Dutch War
        1665-1666 Bubonic plague last outbreak
        1666 Great Fire of London
        1667/8 War of Devolution
        1672/4 Third Anglo-Dutch War
        1675/6 King Philip's War
        1685 Monmouth Rebellion
        1685 Battle of Sedgemoor - last battle on English soil
        1688/97 War of the Grand Alliance (or King William's War)
        1689 – 1746 Jacobite Rebellions
        1746 Battle of Culloden - last battle on the British mainland
        1702/13 War of the Spanish Succession
        1702/13 Queen Anne's War
        1703 November 24th. The Great Storm. Exact numbers would be hard to come by, but we believe a bishop was killed and the Royal Navy estimated 1500 sailors lost.
        1739/42 War of Jenkins' Ear
        1740/8 War of the Austrian Succession
        1756/63 Seven Years War
        1775/6 Worldwide influenza
        1775/83 American War of Independence
        1780/84 Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
        1783 Eruption of Volcano Laki in Iceland. (caused deaths of 25000 Britons in Aug Sept, another 8000 died in the subsequent Winter)
        1789-1868 Penal transportation began from Great Britain to Australia
        1790 Irish immigration from 1790 onwards into England, often via Scotland.
        1803/15 Napoleonic Wars (1805 Battle of Trafalgar)
        1812 British-American War
        1815 Battle of Waterloo 15,000 lives lost
        1816 The year with no summer. A volcanic eruption in April 1815 at Mount Tambora, East Indies threw up so much ash & dust in the air, it affected the whole world climate. Sunlight was blocked and the global wind circulation was disrupted. The whole of northern Europe was affected. In the UK, snow drifts remained on the hills in July, the Thames was frozen in September. In Ireland there was persistent cold rain almost every day of the summer, causing all the crops to fail. The British government abolished income tax that year because of the food shortages.
        1820 British government paid for 4,000 settlers to move to the Cape Colony, South Africa, including a group of framework knitters from Nottingham, to try to stop the spread of the Dutch Boer settlers.
        1830'ish agricultural riots which led to the national and international emigration of ag workers.
        1831/2 Cholera epidemics
        1834 From the start of the New Poor Law, lots of assisted emigration to Canada.
        1839/42 First Anglo-Afghan War
        1839/42 First Opium War
        1840/60 constant programmes of shipping workhouse residents to USA and Australia as servants
        1845/9 Irish Potato famine
        1848/9 Cholera epidemic
        1849 Californian Gold Rush.
        1851 Australian Gold Rush. The epicentre for immigration was Victoria. Gold was discovered in Western Australia & Queensland early 1850s. Northern territory 1865. Tasmania 1877. The population of Australia trebled from 430,000 in 1851 to 1.7 million in 1871.
        1853/4 Cholera epidemic
        1854/56 Crimean War (Charge of the Light Brigade) 270.000-300.000 Casualties
        1856/60 Second Opium War (or The Arrow War)
        1857/9 Worldwide influenza outbreak
        1859/67 c. 38,000 persons were made homeless because of railway construction. (Source: The Growth and Impact of Railways
        1860 The Free Trade agreement put many Weavers out of work.
        1861/5 American Civil War - limited the amount of cotton available to the mills, causing huge unemployment
        1864 12th Mar, Great Flood at Sheffield. 245-250 people lost their lives.
        1865/6 Cholera epidemic
        1870- 1957 British Home Children sent to Canada (Alleged orphans) 25% of the 30,000 were Barnardo's children
        1870/2 Small pox epidemic claimed 44.000 lives
        1878 Loss of the Princess Alice excursion steamer on The Thames in Sept. Over 640 lives lost inc 120 unidentified. Majority of deaths were registered at Woolwich District in Q4 1878.
        1878 Weaver’s strike and riots in Blackburn and Darwen
        1879 28th Dec Tay Bridge disaster over 70 passengers killed
        1879 Anglo-Zulu War
        1880/1 Boer War
        1883 Krakatoa
        1884 April 22nd. Colchester earth quake
        1899 -1902 Boer War
        1901 Last great smallpox epidemic
        1912 Titanic sank, 1517 lives lost
        1914/18 World War I 15,000.000-66,000.000 casualties
        1915 Lusitania Sank of the coast of Ireland 1195 crew & passengers died
        1917 Silvertown Essex Ammunitions factory exploded 300 died On Friday the 19th of January, at 6:52 pm a huge explosion ripped a large area of Silvertown from the face of the Earth. The sound was heard and the shock-wave felt all over London and Essex, it was heard over 100 miles away as far as Southampton and Norwich, the fires that followed were seen 30 miles away from as far as Guildford and Maidstone. Seventy three people lost their lives (sixty nine immediately) and over four hundred were injured.
        1918/9 World wide influenza pandemic kills over 3 million people.
        1919/21 Anglo-Irish War
        1928 7th Jan Thames flooded 14 lives lost
        193? The Depression
        1939/45 World War II, 62,000,000 Casualties
        1940/1 The Blitz London 43,000 lives lost
        1945/91 Cold War
        1848/9 Cholera outbreak
        1948/60 Malayan Emergency
        1950/53 Korean War
        1952 5th Dec, Great smog of London 4,000 lives lost.
        1952/60 Mau Mau Uprising
        1953 North Sea floods 307 Brits killed plus 1,835 from Netherlands
        1955/9 Cyprus Emergency
        1956 Suez Crisis
        1962 Brunei Uprising
        1962 21st Oct Aberfan disaster 144 lives lost 116 of those were children
        1962/5 Worldwide Rubella outbreak
        1962/6 Konfrontasi
        1963/7 Aden Emergency
        1964 Aberdeen typhoid outbreak
        1975/6 Icelandic Cod War
        1982 Falklands War
        1990/1 Gulf War
        1999 Kosovo War
        2000 Sierra Leone
        2001 Afghanistan War
        2003 Invasion of Iraq

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        Last edited by marymog; 12-02-10, 13:36.

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        • #5
          Or our Timeline ... http://www.familytreeforum.com/wiki/...p/The_Timeline.
          Caroline
          Caroline's Family History Pages
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          • #6
            Thanks Julie - the second one is a little better but still not what I was hunting for - the one I am looking at has about 300 different dates from 664 to 1894!!
            There is no absolute truth - and no final answer.

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            • #7
              Thanks Caroline - I'd looked at that. Mary - I do hope all of those are in the Wike timeline - but if there's no verification it means the same that I will have to do with these pestilences etc - short list of them here:
              664 Pestilence
              793 General famine & severe mortality
              897 Mortality of men & cattle for 3 yrs during & after Danish invasion
              976 Famine
              984 Famine, fever of men and murrain of cattle
              986 Famine, fever of men and murrain of cattle
              987 Famine, fever of men and murrain of cattle
              1005 Desolation following expulsion of Dames
              1036 Famine
              1039 Famine
              1044 Famine
              1046 Very hard winter, pestilence & murrain
              1048 Great mortality of men & cattle
              1049 Great mortality of men & cattle
              1069 Wasting of Yorkshire
              1086 Great fever - pestilence. General sharp famine
              1087 Great fever - pestilence. General sharp famine, spotted fever or "new disease"
              1093 Flood, hard winter, severe famines, universal sickness & mortality
              1095 Flood, hard winter, severe famines, universal sickness & mortality
              1096 Flood, hard winter, severe famines, universal sickness & mortality
              1097 Flood, hard winter, severe famines, universal sickness & mortality
              1150 General pestilence & murrain
              1104 General pestilence & murrain
              1105 General pestilence & murrain
              1110 Famine
              1111 Famine
              1112 "Destructive pestilence"
              1125 Most dire famine in all England, pestilence & murrain
              1130 Great murrain


              and so forth.....................
              Last edited by MarionH; 12-02-10, 13:54.
              There is no absolute truth - and no final answer.

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              • #8
                Marion, which site was it that is defunct? I can praps find it for you
                Julie
                They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                .......I find dead people

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                • #9
                  Thanks Julie - this is the footnote at the end of the list - I have hunted for Dave Wragg with no success either!! I found the list included on a family tree web site.

                  Originally i linked to the actual site created by Dave Wragg at http://www.dave-wragg.staff.shef.ac....idems.htm#1800
                  But this now appears to have been moved, or removed from the web
                  Using a search engine failed to find the site, i have therefore decided
                  to reproduce the file and include it into our website.
                  If the original owner should find this file, please contact me with the
                  location of your own site, i will then direct a link to you.



                  With Thanks to David Wragg

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                  Last updated by James Fraser 28/11/2006
                  There is no absolute truth - and no final answer.

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                  • #10
                    It does show up on the wayback machine, but atm it doesnt appear to be working, technical issues I think.
                    Julie
                    They're coming to take me away haha hee hee..........

                    .......I find dead people

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                    • #11
                      Call me a wet blanket if you like, but who compiled the list and from which sources? Who decided what a plague, pestilence, murrain consisted of?

                      There can hardly have been one year in British History clear of plague or pestilence SOMEWHERE!

                      OC

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View Post
                        Call me a wet blanket if you like, but who compiled the list and from which sources? Who decided what a plague, pestilence, murrain consisted of?


                        OC
                        That's what we're trying to find out!!
                        There is no absolute truth - and no final answer.

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