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Great Plague of 1738

Years: 1738 - 1740

The Great Plague of 1738, an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738-1740, affects areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria.

Although no exact figure is available, the epidemic likely kills over 50,000 people.

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."

― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)