Refugees from Poland, including part of the…

1710 CE

Refugees from Poland, including part of the Swedish-Polish corps of Joseph Potocki, but also their Russian pursuers, cross into the Silesian borderlands after the Swedish defeat at Poltava in 1709. 

This results in the infection of twenty-five villages in the Oels (Oleśnica) and Militsch area, and while the plague seems to have faded out by February 1710, it strikes again and even more severely from spring 1710 to winter 1711, killing more than three thousand inhabitants of Oels and many villagers.

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Oels > Olesnica Wroclaw Poland View →

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Habsburg, House of View → Sweden, (second) Kingdom of View → Russia, Tsardom of View → Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations) View → Bohemia, Kingdom of View →

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Northern War, Great View → Great Northern War plague outbreak View → Poltava, Battle of View →

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