Daniel Defoe also wrote dismissively about Londoners who posted the word on their doorways to ward off sickness during the Great Plague of London.

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 – 1722, the Great Plague of 1738 ( which hit Eastern Europe ), and the Russian plague of 1770-1772, it seems to have gradually disappeared from Europe.

Medieval people called the catastrophe of the 14th century either the " Great Pestilence "' or the " Great Plague ".

In Defoe's early life he experienced first-hand some of the most unusual occurrences in English history: in 1665, 70, 000 were killed by the Great Plague of London.

A work that is often read as if it were non-fiction is his account of the Great Plague of London in 1665: A Journal of the Plague Year, a complex historical novel published in 1722.

Although some physical events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London continued to encourage belief in " the end of the world " ruled by carnal human beings ; the doctrine of the sect either died out, or became merged in a milder form of Millenarianism.

Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague

* 1665 – Anne of Great Britain, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland ( d. 1714 )

The Great Plague ( 1665 – 1666 ) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England ( part of modern day United Kingdom ).

The Great Plague in London in 1665.

In 1665, London was swept by a visitation of the plague, and then, in 1666, the capital was swept by the Great Fire, which raged for 5 days, destroying approximately 15, 000 buildings.

The Great Plague of London of 1665 – 66 was the last major outbreak of the plague in England.

In particular it is an invaluable source for the study of the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 – 7, of the Great Plague of 1665, and of the Great Fire of London in 1666.

* August 1 – Queen Anne of Great Britain ( b. 1665 )

In 1665, Charles was faced with a great health crisis: the Great Plague of London.

Denmark started colonies on St. Thomas in 1665 and St. John in 1683 ( though control of the latter was disputed with Great Britain until 1718 ), and purchased St. Croix from France in 1733.

* Great Plague of London, a massive outbreak in England that killed an estimated 20 % of London's population in 1665 – 1666

* Samuel Pepys lodged in Woolwich during 1665 to escape the Great Plague of London.

He grew up in Chester, where his family had been driven by either the major outbreak of the plague in London in 1665, or the Great Fire of 1666.

" Queen Anne " generally refers to Anne, Queen of Great Britain ( 1665 – 1714 ), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1702, and of Great Britain from 1707.

In 1664 Monck had charge of the admiralty when James, Duke of York, commanded the fleet, and when in 1665 much of the populace deserted London on account of the Great Plague, Monck, with all the readiness of a man accustomed to obey without thinking of risk, remained in charge of the government of the city.

However in common with many ' Little Londons ' approximately or so from London, it has also been claimed that the name was given by settlers escaping the Great Plague of London of 1665.

Another good friend of the Coolidges' was George B. Harvey, who was the Ambassador to Great Britain from 1921 to 1923.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

I was anxious to hear about those dazzling days on the Great White Way.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

One who, for a time, succeeded best and was still the sorriest of all was Charles Arthur Shires, who called himself, in the newspapers, Art the Great, or The Great Shires.

The movie was The Great Train Robbery and its effects on the young industry and art were all but incalculable.

she was already considering putting in rebellious requests for duty at San Diego, Bremerton, the Great Lakes, Pensacola -- any place the Navy had a hospital -- with a threat to resign her commission if the request were not granted.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

In The Double Clue Poirot mentions that he was Chief of Police of Brussels, until " the Great War " ( WWI ) forced him to leave for England.

Tin was rare, however, being found mostly in Great Britain.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

304 – 232 BC ), commonly known as Ashoka and also as Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from ca.

Cuarón's next feature was also a literary adaptation, a modernized version of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations starring Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.