Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1843  Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)   

1846  Third cholera pandemic in Russia killing 1 million+ people   

1847  typhus epidemic of 1847 in Canada killing 20,000+ people   

1847  yellow fever in United States   

1847  Influenza in Worldwide   

1848  Cholera in Egypt   

1848  Cholera in North America   

1849  juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39   

1850  President Zachary Taylor , the twelfth president of the United States, died from an attack of cholera morbus, and was succeeded by Millard Fillmor   

1850  Yellow fever in United States   

1850  influenza in North America   

1851  Walter Reed, US Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever   

1851  Cholera in United States   

1852  yellow fever in United States   

1852  yellow fever in Argentina   

1853  Plague in Ottoman Empire   

1853  cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 in Copenhagen, Denmark killing 4,737 people   

1854  the steamship liner Arctic sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 300 people   

1854  william Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever   

1854  broad Street cholera outbreak in England killing 616 people   

1855  Yellow fever in United States   

1855  Third plague pandemic in Worldwide killing 12 million+ in India and China alone people   

1857  yellow fever in Portugal   

1857  Smallpox in Victoria, Australia   

1857  Influenza in Europe, North America, South America   

1863  Alexandre EJ Yersin, Swiss/French bacteriologist (bacteria plague)   

1863  Fourth cholera pandemic in Middle East killing 600,000 people   

1864  David Bullock Harris, US Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever   

1865  Cholera in Egypt   

1866  cholera epidemic kills hundreds in London   

1866  Cholera in Russia, Germany   

1867  measles in Australia   

1867  plague in Iraq   

1870  smallpox in Germany   

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