Sentence examples for great plague from inspiring English sources

He was knighted in 1666 for his services during the Great Plague of London (1664 65).

Great Plague of London, epidemic of plague that ravaged London, England, from 1665 to 1666.

The next great plague pandemic was the dreaded Black Death of Europe in the 14th century.

It was a focus of suffering during the Great Plague of London.

(The Great Plague of London, in the mid-seventeenth century, killed roughly a fifth of the city's population).

Then came 10 years of the Cromwells and all that, followed by the Restoration (1660), the Great Plague of London (1665) and the Great Fire of London (1666), which did much to extinguish the Great Plague.

"Please welcome … the great plague!" There aren't many character comedians who cast the Black Death among their dramatis personae.

Shooter's Hill runs alongside Blackheath, where the victims of the Great Plague were interred in mass graves.

In the 1600s, Dr. Hansen said, an early census was recorded in England as the Great Plague of London killed tens of thousands of Britons.

After the Restoration, the Licensing Act of 1662 was ruthlessly enforced until after the Great Plague of 1664 65, when its rigours were mitigated; it lapsed in 1679.

The first great plague pandemic to be reliably reported occurred during the reign of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the 6th century ce.