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Great Plague of London

Index Great Plague of London

The Great Plague, lasting from 1665 to 1666, was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in England. [1]

216 relations: A Journal of the Plague Year, Abracadabra, Admiralty court, All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song), Anglo-Dutch Wars, Ann Austin, Annus Mirabilis (poem), Black Death, Black Death in England, Black Death migration, Blackheath, London, Brazen head, British literature, Bumblescratch, Bunhill Fields, Cavalier Parliament, Chalfont St Giles, Chapel of St. Roch, Bingen, Charles II of England, Church of St Andrew, Holcombe, Clapton Square, Colchester, Contrayerva, Crossrail, Daniel Defoe, Daniel Duncan (physician), David Loggan, Derby plague of 1665, Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold, Detailed logarithmic timeline, Diary, Ditton, Kent, Down Ampney, Early life of Isaac Newton, Early modern Britain, East End of London, Eaton, Oxfordshire, Edmund Berry Godfrey, Edward Alston, Edward Baynard (physician), Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Elegies to Lessons Learnt, Elizabeth Walker (pharmacist), English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries, English society, Epidemiology, Epidemiology of plague, Eyam, Faithful Fortescue, ..., Fifth Monarchists, Forever Amber, George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, George Starkey, George Thomson (physician), Great Fire of London, Great Northern War plague outbreak, Great Plague of Seville, Great Plague of Vienna, Grub Street, Hawksmoor (novel), Hepworth, West Yorkshire, Historical romance, History of Amsterdam, History of early modern period domes, History of economic thought, History of England, History of journalism in the United Kingdom, History of London, Holcombe, Somerset, Houndsditch, Hudson's Bay Company, Humphrey Henchman, Hyde Park, London, Isaac Newton, James Janeway, James Yeoburn, Jeffrey Hudson, John Cass, John Dryden, John Earle (bishop), John Evelyn, John Heydon (astrologer), John Lewger, John Locke, John Michael Wright, John Milton, John Pritchett, John Quarles, John Vanbrugh, Joseph Bennet, Joseph Frank Payne, Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, King's College London GKT School of Medical Education, Lesbury, Lexden, List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll, List of epidemics, List of historical novels, List of Horrible Histories episodes, List of natural disasters in the British Isles, Little London, Tadley, Hampshire, Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre, Loimologia, London, London dial, London in film, Mass grave, Matthew Mead (minister), Medieval medicine of Western Europe, Method of Fluxions, Milton's Cottage, Nathaniel Hodges, Nell Gwyn, Norfolk, Norman and Medieval London, Nursery rhyme, Old St. Paul's (novel), Outline of London, Oxford, Pandemic, Peter Barwick, Peter Stent, Petticoat Lane Market, Philip Stubbs (priest), Pied Piper of Hamelin in popular culture, Pimlico, Plague, Plague cross, Plague pit, Plague! The Musical, Popish Plot, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Quaker Gardens, Islington, Quicksilver (novel), Reading School, Restoration (1995 film), Restoration (Tremain novel), Restoration literature, Rewards and Fairies, Richmond Green, Ring a Ring o' Roses, River Lea, Rob Margolies, Robert Uvedale, Rolvenden, Rolvenden Layne, Salisbury, Samuel Chidley, Samuel Fisher (Quaker), Samuel Pepys, Sarah Coysh, Searcher of the dead, Second Anglo-Dutch War, Second plague pandemic, Show globe, Sickness and Wealth, Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet, Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet, Snuff (tobacco), Spotted fever, St Bride's Church, St Dunstan's, Stepney, St Giles in the Fields, St Giles' Church, Ickenham, St Giles, London, St John the Evangelist Friday Street, St Katharine's by the Tower, St Magnus-the-Martyr, St Martin's Church, Wareham, St Michael Bassishaw, St Michael, Crooked Lane, St Olave Hart Street, St Paul's Church, Shadwell, St. James's Day Battle, Stuart London, Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle, The Alchymist's Cat, The London Gazette, The Roses of Eyam, The Sickhouse, The Time Machine, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Theories of the Black Death, Thomas Comber (dean of Durham), Thomas Doolittle, Thomas Vincent (minister), Thomas Wadsworth, Thomas Wharton (anatomist), Timeline of London, Timeline of plague, Unintended consequences, Vintage Season, Ware, Hertfordshire, Waterman (occupation), Whitehall, William Austin (poet), William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697), William Lilly, William Mompesson, William Penn, William Wheler, Woolsthorpe Manor, Woolwich, Year of Wonders, Yersinia pestis, 1626 in poetry, 1665, 1665 in England, 1665 in literature, 1665 in science, 1666, 1666 in England, 1722 in literature, 17th century, 2016 in science. Expand index (166 more) »

A Journal of the Plague Year

A Journal of the Plague Year is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in March 1722.

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Abracadabra

Abracadabra is an incantation used as a magic word in stage magic tricks, and historically was believed to have healing powers when inscribed on an amulet.

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Admiralty court

Admiralty courts, also known as maritime courts, are courts exercising jurisdiction over all maritime contracts, torts, injuries, and offenses.

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All You Need Is Love (The JAMs song)

"All You Need Is Love" is a song by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, independently released as their debut single on 9 March 1987.

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Anglo-Dutch Wars

The Anglo-Dutch wars (Engels–Nederlandse Oorlogen or Engelse Zeeoorlogen) were a series of conflicts fought, on one side, by the Dutch States (the Dutch Republic, later the Batavian Republic) and, on the other side, first by England and later by the Kingdom of Great Britain/the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Ann Austin

Ann Austin (? - 1665) was one of the first Quaker travelling preachers.

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Annus Mirabilis (poem)

Annus Mirabilis is a poem written by John Dryden published in 1667.

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Black Death

The Black Death, also known as the Great Plague, the Black Plague, or simply the Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.

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Black Death in England

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348.

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Black Death migration

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1346 to 1353.

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Blackheath, London

Blackheath is a district of south east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Brazen head

A brazen head, brass, or bronze head was a legendary automaton in the early modern period whose ownership was ascribed to late medieval scholars who had developed a reputation as wizards, such as Roger Bacon.

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British literature

British literature is literature in the English language from the United Kingdom, Isle of Man, and Channel Islands.

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Bumblescratch

Bumblescratch is an original sung-through musical with book, music and lyrics by Robert J. Sherman.

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Bunhill Fields

Bunhill Fields is a former burial ground in the London Borough of Islington, north of the City of London, now managed as a public garden by the City of London Corporation.

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Cavalier Parliament

The Cavalier Parliament of England lasted from 8 May 1661 until 24 January 1679.

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Chalfont St Giles

Chalfont St Giles is a village and civil parish within the Chiltern district in south east Buckinghamshire, England, on the edge of the Chilterns, from London, and near Seer Green, Jordans, Chalfont St Peter, Little Chalfont and Amersham.

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Chapel of St. Roch, Bingen

The Chapel of St.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Church of St Andrew, Holcombe

The Church of St.

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Clapton Square

Clapton Square in Hackney Central and/or Lower Clapton is the second largest garden square in the London Borough of Hackney as exceeded by De Beauvoir Square.

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Colchester

Colchester is an historic market town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in the county of Essex.

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Contrayerva

Contrayerva, or contrajerva, is the medicinal rhizome of various tropical Central American and South American species of Dorstenia in the family Moraceae, mainly Dorstenia contrajerva and the closely related Dorstenia drakena but also Dorstenia brasiliensis.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Daniel Duncan (physician)

Daniel Duncan (1649–1735) was a Scottish-French physician, Huguenot by religion, known as a writer of iatrochemical works.

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David Loggan

David Loggan (1634–1692) was an English baroque engraver, draughtsman and painter.

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Derby plague of 1665

During the Great Plague of 1665 the area of Derby, England, fell victim to the bubonic plague epidemic, with many deaths.

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Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold

Destiny: A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold is a 1996 comic book mini-series published by Vertigo, written by Alisa Kwitney and with art by Kent Williams, Michael Zulli, Scott Hampton and Rebecca Guay.

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Detailed logarithmic timeline

This timeline shows the whole history of the universe, the Earth, and mankind in one table.

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Diary

A diary is a record (originally in handwritten format) with discrete entries arranged by date reporting on what has happened over the course of a day or other period.

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Ditton, Kent

Ditton is a large village and civil parish in the Tonbridge and Malling district of Kent, England.

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Down Ampney

Down Ampney is a medium-sized village located in Cotswold district in Gloucestershire, in England.

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Early life of Isaac Newton

The following article is part of an in-depth biography of Isaac Newton, the English mathematician and scientist, author of the Principia.

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Early modern Britain

Early modern Britain is the history of the island of Great Britain roughly corresponding to the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.

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East End of London

The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.

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Eaton, Oxfordshire

Eaton is a hamlet about west of Oxford and about northwest of Abingdon.

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Edmund Berry Godfrey

Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey (23 December 1621 – 12 October 1678) was an English magistrate whose mysterious death caused anti-Catholic uproar in England.

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Edward Alston

Sir Edward Alston (1595–1669), was the president of the College of Physicians.

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Edward Baynard (physician)

Edward Baynard, M.D. (born 1641, fl. 1719), was an English physician and poet.

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Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (18 February 16099 December 1674) was an English statesman who served as Lord Chancellor to King Charles II from 1658, two years before the Restoration of the Monarchy, until 1667.

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Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich

Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG, FRS (27 July 1625 – 28 May 1672) was an English landowner and Infantry officer who later became a naval officer and a politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1645 and 1660.

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Elegies to Lessons Learnt

Elegies to Lessons Learnt is I Like Trains' first studio album, and was released on 1 October 2007.

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Elizabeth Walker (pharmacist)

Elizabeth Walker (12 July 1623 - 23 February 1690) was a British druggist known for her charity and piety.

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English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries

English coffeehouses in the 17th and 18th centuries were public social places where men would meet for conversation and commerce.

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English society

English society is the group behaviour of the English, how they organise themselves and make collective decisions.

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Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where) and determinants of health and disease conditions in defined populations.

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Epidemiology of plague

Globally about 600 cases are reported a year.

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Eyam

Eyam is an English village and civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district that lies within the Peak District National Park.

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Faithful Fortescue

Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666), of Dromiskin in County Louth, Ireland, was Governor of Carrickfergus in Ireland, long the chief seat and garrison of the English in Ulster and was a royalist commander during the English Civil War.

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Fifth Monarchists

The Fifth Monarchists or Fifth Monarchy Men were an extreme Puritan sect active from 1649 to 1660 during the Interregnum, following the English Civil Wars of the 17th century.

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Forever Amber

Forever Amber (1944) is a historical romance novel by Kathleen Winsor set in 17th-century England.

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George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle

George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG (6 December 1608 – 3 January 1670) was an English soldier and politician, and a key figure in the Restoration of the monarchy to King Charles II in 1660.

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George Starkey

George Starkey (1628–1665) was a Colonial American alchemist, medical practitioner, and writer of numerous commentaries and chemical treatises that were widely circulated in Europe and influenced prominent men of science, including Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton.

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George Thomson (physician)

George Thomson (c. 1619–1676) was an English physician, medical writer and pamphleteer.

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Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London from Sunday, 2 September to Thursday, 6 of September 1666.

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Great Northern War plague outbreak

During the Great Northern War (1700–1721), many towns and areas of the Circum-Baltic and East-Central Europe suffered from a severe outbreak of the plague with a peak from 1708 to 1712.

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Great Plague of Seville

The Great Plague of Seville (1647–1652) was a massive outbreak of disease in Spain that killed up to a quarter of Seville's population.

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Great Plague of Vienna

The Great Plague of Vienna occurred in 1679 in Vienna, Austria, the imperial residence of the Austrian Habsburg rulers.

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Grub Street

Until the early 19th century, Grub Street was a street close to London's impoverished Moorfields district that ran from Fore Streer east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate north to Chiswell Street.

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Hawksmoor (novel)

Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd.

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Hepworth, West Yorkshire

Hepworth is a small village to the southeast of Holmfirth and southwest of Jackson Bridge in West Yorkshire, England.

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Historical romance

Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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History of Amsterdam

Amsterdam has a long and eventful history.

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History of early modern period domes

The construction of domes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries relied primarily on empirical techniques and oral traditions rather than the architectural treatises of the times, which avoided practical details.

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History of economic thought

The history of economic thought deals with different thinkers and theories in the subject that became political economy and economics, from the ancient world to the present day in the 21st Century.

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History of England

England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk has revealed.

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History of journalism in the United Kingdom

The history of journalism in the United Kingdom includes the gathering and transmitting of news, spans the growth of technology and trade, marked by the advent of specialized techniques for gathering and disseminating information on a regular basis.

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History of London

The history of London, the capital city of England and the United Kingdom, extends over 2000 years.

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Holcombe, Somerset

Holcombe is a small village and civil parish (population 936) in the Mendip local government district of Somerset, England.

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Houndsditch

Houndsditch is a one-way street in London linking Outwich Street in the north-west to St.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group.

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Humphrey Henchman

Humphrey Henchman (1592 – 1675) was a Church of England clergyman and bishop of London from 1663 to 1675.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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James Janeway

James Janeway (1636–1674) was a Puritan minister and author who, after John Bunyan, had the widest and longest popularity as the author of works read by English-speaking children.

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James Yeoburn

James Yeoburn (born 30 December 1989) is an English theatre producer and entrepreneur.

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Jeffrey Hudson

Sir Jeffrey Hudson (1619 – circa 1682) was a court dwarf of the English queen Henrietta Maria of France.

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John Cass

Sir John Cass (February 1661 – 5 July 1718) was a merchant, politician and philanthropist.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Earle (bishop)

John Earle (c. 160117 November 1665) was an English bishop.

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John Evelyn

John Evelyn, FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

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John Heydon (astrologer)

John Heydon (10 September 1629 – c. 1667) was an English Neoplatonist occult philosopher, Rosicrucian, astrologer and attorney.

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John Lewger

John Lewger (1602–1665) was the first attorney practicing in Maryland, was Clerk of the Maryland House of Burgesses and was the first Secretary and Attorney General of Maryland.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".

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John Michael Wright

John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) was a portrait painter in the Baroque style.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.

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John Pritchett

John Pritchett (died 1 January, 1681) was an English churchman, bishop of Gloucester from 1672.

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John Quarles

John Quarles (1624 or 1625–1665) was an English poet.

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John Vanbrugh

Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

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Joseph Bennet

Joseph Bennet (1629–1707) was a nonconformist minister in the southern English country of Sussex.

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Joseph Frank Payne

Joseph Frank Payne (1840–1910) was an English physician, known also as a historian of medicine.

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Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh

Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (22 March 1615 – 3 December 1691), also known as Lady Ranelagh, was a scientist in seventeenth-century Britain.

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King's College London GKT School of Medical Education

King's College London GKT School of Medical Education (abbreviated: GKT) is the medical school of King's College London.

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Lesbury

Lesbury is a small rural village in Northumberland in the north of England.

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Lexden

Lexden is a suburb of Colchester, Essex, England.

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List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland by death toll

The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war but including acts of terrorism) which relate to the United Kingdom since 1801, or the states that preceded it (England and Wales and Scotland before 1707, Ireland and Great Britain from 1707 to 1800), or involved their citizens, in a definable incident or accident such as a shipwreck, where the loss of life was forty or more.

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List of epidemics

This article is a list of epidemics of infectious disease.

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List of historical novels

This list outlines notable historical novels by the current geo-political boundaries of countries for the historical location in which most of the novel takes place.

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List of Horrible Histories episodes

Horrible Histories is a children's live-action historical sketch-comedy TV series based on the book series of the same name written by Terry Deary.

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List of natural disasters in the British Isles

This is a list of natural disasters in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Little London, Tadley, Hampshire

Little London is a village situated between the North Hampshire Downs and the gravel plains of the Kennet valley, north of Basingstoke and south of Reading.

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Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre

Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre was a Victorian seaside theatre in the holiday resort of Llandudno in North Wales, UK.

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Loimologia

Loimologia, or, an historical Account of the Plague in London in 1665, With precautionary Directions against the like Contagion is a treatise by Dr.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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London dial

A London dial in the broadest sense can mean any sundial that is set for 51°30′ N, but more specifically refers to a engraved brass horizontal sundial with a distinctive design.

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London in film

London has been used frequently both as a filming location and as a film setting.

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Mass grave

A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may not be identified prior to burial.

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Matthew Mead (minister)

Matthew Mead or Meade (c. 1630 – 1699) was an English Independent minister.

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Medieval medicine of Western Europe

Medieval medicine in Western Europe was composed of a mixture of existing ideas from antiquity, spiritual influences and what Claude Lévi-Strauss identifies as the "shamanistic complex" and "social consensus." In the Early Middle Ages, following the fall of the Western Roman Empire, standard medical knowledge was based chiefly upon surviving Greek and Roman texts, preserved in monasteries and elsewhere.

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Method of Fluxions

Method of Fluxions is a book by Isaac Newton.

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Milton's Cottage

Milton's Cottage is a timber-framed 16th-century building in the Buckinghamshire village of Chalfont St Giles.

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Nathaniel Hodges

Nathaniel Hodges M.D. (1629–1688) was an English physician, known for his work during the Great Plague of London and his written account Loimologia of it.

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Nell Gwyn

Eleanor "Nell" Gwyn (2 February 1650 – 14 November 1687; also spelled Gwynn, Gwynne) was a long-time mistress of King Charles II of England and Scotland.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Norman and Medieval London

This article covers the history of London from the Norman conquest of England in 1066 to the late 15th century.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Old St. Paul's (novel)

Old St.

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Outline of London

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to London: London – capital and most populous city of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Pandemic

A pandemic (from Greek πᾶν pan "all" and δῆμος demos "people") is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread across a large region; for instance multiple continents, or even worldwide.

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Peter Barwick

Peter Barwick (1619–1705) was an English physician and author.

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Peter Stent

Peter Stent (c. 1613–1665) was a seventeenth-century London printseller, who from the early 1640s until his death ran one of the biggest printmaking businesses of the day.

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Petticoat Lane Market

Petticoat Lane Market is a fashion and clothing market in the East End of London.

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Philip Stubbs (priest)

Philip Stubbs (1665–1738) was an English churchman and author, the archdeacon of St Albans and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Pied Piper of Hamelin in popular culture

The Pied Piper of Hamelin has appeared many times in popular culture.

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Pimlico

Pimlico is a small area within central London in the City of Westminster.

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Plague

Plague or The Plague may refer to.

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Plague cross

The term plague cross can refer to either a mark placed on a building occupied by victims of plague; or a permanent structure erected, either to enable plague sufferers to trade while minimising the risk of contagion, or to commemorate past victims of the disease.

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Plague pit

A plague pit is the informal term used to refer to mass graves in which victims of the Black Death were buried.

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Plague! The Musical

Plague! The Musical is a musical with book, music and lyrics by David Massingham and Matthew Townend.

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Popish Plot

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

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Prince Rupert of the Rhine

Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Duke of Cumberland (17 December 1619 – 29 November 1682) was a noted German soldier, admiral, scientist, sportsman, colonial governor and amateur artist during the 17th century.

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Quaker Gardens, Islington

Quaker Gardens is a small public garden in the extreme south of the London Borough of Islington, close to the boundary with the City of London, in the area known historically as Bunhill Fields.

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Quicksilver (novel)

Quicksilver is a historical novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2003.

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Reading School

Reading School is a grammar school with academy status for boys in the English town of Reading, the county town of Berkshire.

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Restoration (1995 film)

Restoration is a 1995 American historical drama film directed by Michael Hoffman.

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Restoration (Tremain novel)

Restoration is a novel by Rose Tremain, published in 1989.

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Restoration literature

Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.

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Rewards and Fairies

Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910.

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Richmond Green

Richmond Green is a recreation area located near the centre of Richmond, a town of about 20,000 inhabitants situated in south west London.

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Ring a Ring o' Roses

"Ring a Ring o' Roses" or "Ring Around the Rosie" or "Ring a Ring o' Rosie" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game.

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River Lea

The River Lea in England originates in Leagrave, Luton in the Chiltern Hills and flows generally southeast, east, and then south through east London where it meets the River Thames, the last looping section being known as Bow Creek.

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Rob Margolies

Rob Margolies (born February 28, 1983) is an American film producer and director.

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Robert Uvedale

Dr Robert Uvedale (1642–1722) was an English teacher and horticulturist.

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Rolvenden

Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

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Rolvenden Layne

Rolvenden Layne is a hamlet within the civil parish of Rolvenden in the Ashford District of Kent, England.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Samuel Chidley

Samuel Chidley (1616–c. 1672) was an English Puritan activist and controversialist.

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Samuel Fisher (Quaker)

Samuel Fisher (1605–1665) was an English Quaker controversialist.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

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Sarah Coysh

Sarah Coysh (c. 1742 – 1801) was the heiress to the estates of the Coysh, Allen, and James families.

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Searcher of the dead

Searchers of the dead, also known as plague-searchers or simply searchers, were people, mostly women, hired by parishes in London, England, to examine corpses and determine the cause of people's deaths.

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Second Anglo-Dutch War

The Second Anglo-Dutch War (4 March 1665 – 31 July 1667), or the Second Dutch War (Tweede Engelse Oorlog "Second English War") was a conflict fought between England and the Dutch Republic for control over the seas and trade routes, where England tried to end the Dutch domination of world trade during a period of intense European commercial rivalry.

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Second plague pandemic

The second plague pandemic is a major series of epidemics of the plague that started with the Black Death, which reached mainland Europe in 1348 and killed up to a half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years.

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Show globe

A show globe is a glass vessel of various shapes and sizes containing a colorful liquid.

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Sickness and Wealth

"Sickness and Wealth" is an episode of the BBC sit-com, Only Fools and Horses.

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Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet

Sir Gerrard Napier, 1st Baronet or Napper(19 October 1606 – 14 May 1673), of Middle Marsh and Moor Crichel in Dorset, was an English Member of Parliament (MP) who supported the Royalists during the English Civil War.

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Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet

Sir Thomas Herbert, 1st Baronet (1606–1682), was an English traveller, historian and a gentleman of the bedchamber of King Charles I while Charles I was in the custody of Parliament (from 1647 until the King's execution in January 1649).

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Snuff (tobacco)

Snuff is a smokeless tobacco made from ground or pulverised tobacco leaves.

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Spotted fever

A spotted fever is a type of tick-borne disease which presents on the skin.

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St Bride's Church

St Bride's Church is a church in the City of London, England.

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St Dunstan's, Stepney

St Dunstan's, Stepney is an Anglican Church which stands on a site that has been used for Christian worship for over a thousand years.

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St Giles in the Fields

St Giles-in-the-Fields, also commonly known as the Poets' Church, is a church in the London Borough of Camden, in the West End.

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St Giles' Church, Ickenham

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St Giles, London

St Giles is a district of London, at the southern tip of the London Borough of Camden.

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St John the Evangelist Friday Street

St John the Evangelist Friday Street was a church in Bread Street Ward of the City of London.

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St Katharine's by the Tower

St Katharine's by the Tower—full name Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St.

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St Magnus-the-Martyr

St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge is a Church of England church and parish within the City of London.

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St Martin's Church, Wareham

St Martin's Church, Wareham, sometimes St Martin's-on-the-walls, is an Anglo-Saxon church in the town of Wareham, Dorset in England.

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St Michael Bassishaw

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St Michael, Crooked Lane

Coordinates: St Michael, Crooked Lane was an ancient parish church situated on the east side of Miles's Lane in Candlewick Ward in the City of London.

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St Olave Hart Street

St Olave Hart Street is a Church of England church in the City of London, located on the corner of Hart Street and Seething Lane near Fenchurch Street railway station.

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St Paul's Church, Shadwell

St Paul's Church, Shadwell, is a Grade II* listed Church of England church, located between The Highway and Shadwell Basin, on the edge of Wapping, in the East End of London, England.

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St. James's Day Battle

The naval St James' Day Battle (also known as the St James' Day Fight), the Battle of the North Foreland and the Battle of Orfordness) took place on 25 July 1666 — St James' day in the Julian calendar then in use in England (4 August 1666 in the Gregorian calendar), during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. It was fought between fleets of England, commanded jointly by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, and the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. In the Netherlands, the battle is known as the Two Days' Battle.

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Stuart London

This article covers the history of London during the Stuart period from 1603 to 1714.

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Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle

Ten Plagues – A Song Cycle is the nineteenth solo studio album by the British singer/songwriter Marc Almond.

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The Alchymist's Cat

The Alchymist's Cat is the first book in The Deptford Histories series by Robin Jarvis.

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The London Gazette

The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.

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The Roses of Eyam

The Roses of Eyam is a historical drama by Don Taylor about The Great Plague that swept Britain in 1665/66.

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The Sickhouse

The Sickhouse is a 2008 horror film, directed by Curtis Radclyffe, produced by Charlotte Wontner and starring Gina Philips, Kellie Shirley and Alex Hassell.

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The Time Machine

The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Theories of the Black Death

Theories of the Black Death are a variety of explanations that have been advanced to explain the nature and transmission of the Black Death (1347–69).

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Thomas Comber (dean of Durham)

Thomas Comber (1645–1699) was an English churchman, Dean of Durham from 1689.

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Thomas Doolittle

Thomas Doolittle (1632?–1707) was an English nonconformist minister, tutor and author.

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Thomas Vincent (minister)

Thomas Vincent (May 1634 – 15 October 1678) was an English Puritan minister and author.

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Thomas Wadsworth

Thomas Wadsworth (1630–1676) was an English presbyterian minister, an ejected nonconformist after 1662.

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Thomas Wharton (anatomist)

Thomas Wharton (1614–1673) was an English physician and anatomist best known for his descriptions of the submandibular duct (one of the salivary ducts) and Wharton's jelly of the umbilical cord.

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Timeline of London

The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England in the United Kingdom.

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Timeline of plague

This is a timeline of plague, describing major events such as epidemics and key medical developments.

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Unintended consequences

In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes that are not the ones foreseen and intended by a purposeful action.

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Vintage Season

"Vintage Season" is a science fiction novella by American authors Catherine L. Moore and Henry Kuttner, published under the joint pseudonym "Lawrence O'Donnell" on September, 1946.

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Ware, Hertfordshire

Ware is a town of around 18,800 people in Hertfordshire, England close to the county town of Hertford.

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Waterman (occupation)

A waterman is a river worker who transfers passengers across and along city centre rivers and estuaries in the United Kingdom and its colonies.

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Whitehall

Whitehall is a road in the City of Westminster, Central London, which forms the first part of the A3212 road from Trafalgar Square to Chelsea.

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William Austin (poet)

William Austin (fl. 1662), was an English writer of verse and classical scholar.

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William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697)

William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, PC (June 1608 – 9 April 1697) was an English nobleman and soldier.

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William Lilly

William Lilly (9 June 1681) has been described as "the most abused as well as the most celebrated astrologer of the seventeenth century".

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William Mompesson

William Mompesson (1639–1709) was a historically important clergyman, whose decisive action when his Derbyshire parish, Eyam, became infected with the plague in the 17th century averted more widespread catastrophe.

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William Penn

William Penn (14 October 1644 – 30 July 1718) was the son of Sir William Penn, and was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker, and founder of the English North American colony the Province of Pennsylvania.

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William Wheler

Sir William Wheler, 1st Baronet (ca. 1611 – 6 August 1666) of the city of Westminster, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1640 and 1660.

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Woolsthorpe Manor

Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is the birthplace and was the family home of Sir Isaac Newton.

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Woolwich

Woolwich is a district of south-east London, England, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

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Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague is a 2001 international bestselling historical fiction novel by Geraldine Brooks.

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Yersinia pestis

Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis) is a Gram-negative, non-motile rod-shaped coccobacillus, with no spores.

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1626 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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1665

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1665 in England

Events from the year 1665 in England.

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1665 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1665.

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1665 in science

The year 1665 in science and technology involved some significant events.

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1666

This is the first year to be designated as an Annus mirabilis, in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire.

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1666 in England

Events from the year 1666 in England.

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1722 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1722.

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17th century

The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700, in the Gregorian calendar.

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2016 in science

A number of significant scientific events occurred in 2016.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Plague_of_London

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