Date | Location | Epidemic |
1657 |
Boston |
Measles |
1687 |
Boston |
Measles |
1690 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
1713 |
Boston |
Measles |
1729 |
Boston |
Measles |
1732-3 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
1738 |
South Carolina |
Smallpox |
1739-40 |
Boston |
Measles |
1747 |
Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina |
Measles |
1759 |
North America [areas inhabited by white people] |
Measles |
1761 |
North America
and West Indies |
Influenza |
1772 |
North America |
Measles |
1775 |
North America [especially hard in Northeast] |
Unknown |
1775-6 |
Worldwide [one of the worst epidemics] |
Influenza |
1783 |
Dover, Delaware ["extremely fatal"] |
Bilious Disorder |
1788 |
Philadelphia and New York |
Measles |
1793 |
Vermont |
[a "putrid" fever] and Influenza |
1793 |
Virginia [killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 weeks] |
Influenza |
1793 |
Philadelphia [one of the worst epidemics] |
Yellow Fever |
1793 |
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania [many unexplained deaths] |
Unknown |
1793 |
Middletown, Pennsylvania [many mysterious deaths] |
Unknown |
1794 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Yellow Fever |
1796-7 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Yellow Fever |
1798 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [one of the worst] |
Yellow Fever |
1803 |
New York |
Yellow Fever |
1820-3 |
Nationwide [starts-Schuylkill River and spreads] |
"Fever" |
1831-2 |
Nationwide [brought by English emigrants] |
Asiatic Cholera |
1832 |
New York City and other major cities |
Cholera |
1837 |
Philadelphia |
Typhus |
1841 |
Nationwide [especially severe in the South] |
Yellow Fever |
1847 |
New Orleans |
Yellow Fever |
1847-8 |
Worldwide |
Influenza |
1848-9 |
North America |
Cholera |
1850 |
Nationwide |
Yellow Fever |
1850-1 |
North America |
Influenza |
1852 |
Nationwide [New Orleans - 8,000 die in summer] |
Yellow Fever |
1855 |
Nationwide [many parts] |
Yellow Fever |
1857-9 |
Worldwide [one of the greatest epidemics] |
Influenza |
1860-1 |
Pennsylvania |
Smallpox |
1865-1873 |
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans |
Smallpox |
1865-1873 |
Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC |
Cholera |
1865-1873 |
Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, Washington DC |
A series of recurring
epidemics of:
Typhus,
Typhoid,
Scarlet Fever,
Yellow Fever |
1873-5 |
North America and Europe |
Influenza |
1878 |
New Orleans [last great epidemic] |
Yellow Fever |
1885 |
Plymouth, Pennsylvania |
Typhoid |
1886 |
Jacksonville, Florida |
Yellow Fever |
1918 |
Worldwide [high point
year] more people
were hospitalized in
WWI from this epidemic
than wounds. US Army
training camps became
death camps, with 80%
death rate in some camps
|
Influenza |