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Topic: Great Plague of Vienna
Location: Nijmegen Gelderland Netherlands

Great Plague of Vienna

Years: 1679 - 1679

The Great Plague of Vienna, which occurs in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers, is believed to have been bubonic plague.

The city is crippled by the epidemic, which will recur fitfully into the early 1680s, killing an estimated seventy-six thousand residents.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)