Rats, fleas, and a city unprepared—when the plague struck London in 1665, it killed one in five residents in less than a year.

The Mystery of the Black Death begins in September of 1665, when a tailor in the secluded English village of Eyam opened a flea-infested shipment of fabric from London. In a matter of days ...

The Great Plague of 1665–6 saw disease spread some four times faster in London than it did at the peak of the Black Death in 1348, a study has concluded. Experts from Canada analysed thousands ...

facsimile reproduction from a pictorial broadside of 1665-6. Image: Wellcome in Creative Commons Beneath the trees and grass of Charterhouse Square is a Black Death burial ground. It was created ...

in 1665. Viccars died days later, Eyam’s first victim of the plague, the Black Death that would ravage London and the village of Eyam. The plague, spread by fleas carried from London in the bolt ...

with the worst outbreak since the Black Death beginning in 1665, when London lost around 15% of its population. It's commonly believed that it was finally wiped out by the Great Fire of London in ...

New research -- published Monday in the journal PNAS-- suggests that over the course of the pandemic, from the Black Death of 1348 to the Great Plague of 1665, transmission rates increased four-fold.

How did it end? Here's all you need to know. In 1665 The Great Plague of London struck the city. It is known by a few names, the Black Death and the Great Mortality. In the 17th century ...

The Black Death marked the beginning of the second plague ... Some point to the Great Plague of London in 1665 as the period’s end, but the disease struck several other cities later.