215 results for smallpox

1867
Women taxpayers were first allowed to vote...

3 November 1869
Clara A. Swain, pioneering medical missionary,...

4 May 1825
The writer Thomas Henry Huxley was born in...

By 14 January 1871
Algernon Charles Swinburne published Songs...

2 February 1831
Gregory XVI was chosen Pope after the death...

1866
Paul Verlaine published Poèmes saturnien...

1851
An international effort to defeat disease,...

An international effort to defeat disease, suggested by the success of smallpox vaccination, began at a conference in Paris this year.

6 April 1830
The religious society of the Mormons, or...

15 August 1834
The South Australia Act was passed, allowing...

1 May 1862
The International Exhibition of Industry...

8 September 1893
A motion for women's suffrage was passed...

Summer 1779
A combined French and Spanish fleet, massed...

A combined French and Spanish fleet, massed in the English Channel for invasion of southern England, retired in disarray after smallpox broke out on one of the ships and spread rapidly.
Williams, Gareth. Angel of Death. The Story of Smallpox. Palgrave Macmillan.
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Before October 1865
John Ruskin published his popular treatise...

10 May 1774
Louis XV of France, great-grandson and immediate...

Louis XV of France, great-grandson and immediate successor of the Sun King , died of smallpox, and was succeeded by his grandson Louis XVI .

1865
William Lecky published his popular History...

By 12 May 1845
Benjamin Disraeli published his condition-of-England...

23 September 1880
Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, land...

1833
Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby, published...

1866
American Augusta Jane Evans Wilson published...

1835
Future poet laureate Alfred Austin was born...

1754
The Royal College of Physicians made public...

The Royal College of Physicians made public their official approval of inoculation for smallpox, as introduced to England by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu thirty-three years before.

By 5 November 1842
Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician and...

1829
Karl Baedeker began the publication of his...

8 June 1831
Sarah Siddons, great tragic actress, died...

March-May 1874
James Thomson published his best known poem,...