Plague cases begin to appear in London in August, and alarm quickly spreads.

By September 7, soldiers marching from England's north to embark on foreign campaigns are rerouted around the city due to the generals' concerns about infection.

By winter, the aristocratic class begins fleeing the city.

Theaters, which had been temporarily closed by city authorities since a riot in June, are kept closed until December 29 out of fear of plague spreading in crowds.

Around two thousand Londoners die of plague between August 1592 and January 1593.

The Company of Parish Clerks begins regularly keeping and publishing records of plague mortality on December 21, 1592.

Some of these records will be re-recorded by John Stow during research in the seventeenth century and have survived time despite the original documents being lost.