The plague had arrived in Scania (Skåne)…

1711 CE

The plague had arrived in Scania (Skåne) on November 20 (O.S.)/ 30 1710, when an infected Västanå boatman had returned home from the navy.

Scania had not yet fully recovered from the Scanian War when its population is further weakened by a measles epidemic in 1706, a crop failure and the outbreak of smallpox in 1708–1709, an invasion of the Danish army in 1709, the expulsion of this army after the battle of Helsingborg, followed by conscriptions into the Swedish army and an outbreak of typhus in 1710.

While Scania is protected from an infection from the north by a cordon sanitaire between it and Småland, the plague comes by sea and makes landfall not only in Västanå in January 1711, but also in ...

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Västanå Skåne County Skane Sweden View →

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