Great Plague

The Great Plague (AD 1665-1666) was a massive outbreak of disease in Britain that killed 75,000 to 100,000 people, up to a fifth of London's population. The disease is generally believed to have been bubonic plague, an infection by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted via a rat vector. Other symptom patterns of the bubonic plague, such as septicemic plague and pneumonic plague were also present.

Literary accounts

Accounts of the plague were given by Samuel Pepys in his famous diary, and by Daniel Defoe in the fictional work A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722.

Related Topics:
Samuel Pepys - Diary - Daniel Defoe - A Journal of the Plague Year

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