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kl in reply to @JWestland

Yes, Europe in the 1600s. Crusades. Black Plague.

You may be a couple of centuries out on that. Crusades were put on pause from the 1400s through to the 2000s, and plague was long gone by the C17th.

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Ramsaye in reply to @kl

London had the Plague 1665/66, it ended in the same year as the fire but it's not the fire that ended it. QI fact.

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kl in reply to @Ramsaye

Yeah, lots of outbreaks of plague since the C15th (including quite recently in Africa iirc), but not really as a major Europe-wide population decimator.

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