Great Plague of 1738
Years: 1738 - 1740
The Great Plague of 1738, an outbreak of the bubonic plague between 1738-1740, affects areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria.
Although no exact figure is available, the epidemic likely kills over 50,000 people.
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The Great Plague of 1738, an outbreak of the bubonic plague lasting for two years, affects areas in the modern nations of Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Austria.
There are no significant military operations in 1738.
The Russian Army fails to cross the Dniester and has to leave Ochakiv and Kinburn Fortress due to an outbreak of plague.
The plague hits the Banat region in February 1738, having been spread there by the Imperial Army.
Other cities in the region are also stricken.
One hundred and eleven deaths between October 1737 and April 1738 are reported in Zărneşti, and ...
...seventy in Codlea.
More than ten percent of the population of Cluj-Napoca is reported to have been killed by the pandemic.
The Serbian region of Grad Zrenjanin, in the Serbian Banat, is also affected by the plague by the summer of 1738.
The plague’s spread extends to the Adriatic, having made its way to the Venetian ruled island of Brač along the Dalmatian coast.
The Great Plague has claimed thirty-six thousand lives according to the Hungarian Diet of 1740.
Southeastern Transylvania may have been the hardest area hit by the Great Plague of 1738.
The plague from 1738 to 1746 will kill a sixth of the population of Timişoara.
Timişoara's Monument of the Holy Trinity in Piaţa Unirii is dedicated to the plague's victims.
Although no exact figure is available, the epidemic likely kills over fifty thousand people in southeastern Europe.
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