Fine hundred Iroquois die suddenly from an…
1655 CE
Fine hundred Iroquois die suddenly from an epidemic of smallpox, a European infectious disease to which they have no immunity, in 1655.
The Iroquois had invited the French to establish a trading and missionary settlement at Onondaga (present-day New York state) in 1654.
The Mohawk in the following year attack and expel the French from this trading post, possibly because of the smallpox deaths.
Groups
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations)
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Algonquin, or Algonkin, people (Amerind tribe)
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Wyandot, or Wendat, or Huron people (Amerind tribe)
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New France (French Colony)
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Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus
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France, (Bourbon) Kingdom of
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