Dates Flashcards by Peter Spoerri

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Hippocrates

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d. 377 BCE

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Aristotle

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d. 322

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Galen

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d. 200

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Antonine Plague

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165-180 CE

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St Agatha

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d. ca. 251

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St Sebastian

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d. ca. 288

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Little Ice Age

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ca. 450-700

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A Year Without Summer

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536

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Justinian Plague

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541-542

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Emperor Justinian

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d. 565

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Procopius

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d. 565

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John of Ephesus

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d. 568

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Gregory of Tours

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d. 594

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Pope Gregory the Great

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d. 604

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Black Death

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1346-1353

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Mongols besiege Genoese merchants at Kaffa

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1345-1346

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Plague in Messina

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1347

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Merchants bring Plague to Genoa

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1346

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Giovanni Villani

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d. 1348

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Giovanni Boccaccio

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d. 1375

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Ibn Katima

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writing 1349

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Ibn Hajar

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after 1444

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Inb Al Wardi

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writing c. 1348

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Ibn Al-Khatib

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writing 1349-52

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Ibn Kathir

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writing 1350-51

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Pistoia bars citizens from coming to or going from Pisa or Lucca

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1348

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Flagellants

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1347-49

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English Statute of Labourers

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1351

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2nd Pestilence/Children’s Plague

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1361-62

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St Roch

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d. 1377

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Ragussa institutes quarantine

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1377

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Miquel Parets

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1651-54

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Daniel Defoe: ‘Journal of the Plague Year’

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1665, written 1772

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Columbus lands in Hispaniola

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1492

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Hernando Cortes arrives in Mexico

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1519

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Fall of Tenochtitlan

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1521

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Francisco Pizarro’s conquest of Peru

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1532

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Hurons halved between x and y

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1636 and 1640

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Hurons extinct

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1650

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Worley’s letter about ‘engrafting’

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1717

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Onesimus tells Mather about variation 1701

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after 1701

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Jenner’s investigation into cow pox

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1798

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Malthus criticises vaccination

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1798

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England’s vaccination Act (also addition of conscientious objector option)

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1753, 1898

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Formation of anti vac society of America

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1879

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Chicago compulsory vaccination and quarantine for immigrants

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1881

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Chicago smallpox epidemics

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1852-58, 1872-73

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WHO established

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1949

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WHO declares smallpox extinct

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1980

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Reports of efforts to weaponise smallpox

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1998

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Canadian researchers reinvent an extinct pox

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2017