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Last Consul. Served as Consul for life, but decreed that this title would die with him. 11 May 912 Æthelstan: 27 October 939 (aged ~45) Last King of the Anglo-Saxons and first King of the English: 927 Pope John XII: 14 May 964 (aged 27–34) Last Pope elected of the Pornocracy: 16 December 955 Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois: 23 September ...
You're not going to be able to find that for the 1600s, the records aren't good enough. But we do know the name of one of the last surviving people who were born in the 1700's, one would be a woman in America, Augusta Hejnek, who was born Christmas day 1799 and died on 1 March 1908.
On April 23, 1616, English poet and playwright William Shakespeare died in his hometown of Stratford-upon-Avon at the age of fifty-two.
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September 24 – All 130 crew of the Dutch Republic ship Hoop die when the merchantman sinks in a storm while traveling in the Pacific Ocean between the Hawaiian Islands and Japan. The Liefde , a ship accompanying Hoop, is badly damaged but survives; all but 24 of its crew of more than 100 die from starvation and thirst after ...
- London in 1665
- The Recording of Deaths
- Preventive Measures
- Outbreak
- Aftermath
- Impact
- References
The plague was endemic in 17th-century London, as it was in other European cities at the time.The disease periodically erupted into massive epidemics. There were 30,000 deaths due to the plague in 1603, 35,000 in 1625, 10,000 in 1636, and smaller numbers in other years. In late 1664, a bright comet was seen in the sky, and the people of London beca...
In order to judge the severity of an epidemic, it is first necessary to know how big the population was in which it occurred. There was no official census of the population to provide this figure, and the best contemporary count comes from the work of John Graunt (1620–1674), who was one of the earliest Fellows of the Royal Society and one of the f...
Reports of plague around Europe began to reach England in the 1660s, causing the Privy Council to consider what steps might be taken to prevent it crossing to England. Quarantining (isolation) of ships had been used during previous outbreaks and was again introduced for ships coming to London in November 1663, following outbreaks in Amsterdam and H...
Plague was one of the hazards of life in Britain from its dramatic appearance in 1348 with the Black Death. The Bills of Mortality began to be published regularly in 1603, in which year 33,347 deaths were recorded from plague. Between then and 1665, only four years had no recorded cases. In 1563, a thousand people were reportedly dying in London ea...
By late autumn, the death toll in London and the suburbs began to slow until, in February 1666, it was considered safe enough for the King and his entourage to come back to the city. With the return of the monarch, others began to return: The gentry returned in their carriages accompanied by carts piled high with their belongings. The judges moved ...
The plague in London largely affected the poor, as the rich were able to leave the city by either retiring to their country estates or residing with kin in other parts of the country. The subsequent Great Fire of London ruined many city merchants and property owners. As a result of these events, London was largely rebuilt and Parliament enacted the...
Notes Bibliography 1. Arnold, Catherine (2006). Necropolis: London and its dead. London: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-0248-7. 2. Bell, Walter George (1924). The Great Plague in London in 1665. Michigan: AMS Press. ISBN 978-1-85891-218-9. 3. Bell, Walter George (1951). Hollyer, Belinda (ed.). The Great Plague in London(Folio Society ed.). Fol...
24 de oct. de 2022 · A “ witchcraft craze ” rippled through Europe from the 1300s to the end of the 1600s. Tens of thousands of supposed witches —mostly women—were executed. Though the Salem trials took place just...
27 de may. de 2024 · Reformation, the religious revolution that took place in the Western church in the 16th century. Its greatest leaders undoubtedly were Martin Luther and John Calvin. Having far-reaching political, economic, and social effects, the Reformation became the basis for the founding of Protestantism, one of the three major branches of Christianity.
