feb 5, 1720 - Last Outbreak of the Bubonic Plague in Europe
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The bubonic plague had periodically struck Europe for centuries, most famously during the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death. The plague struck Western/Central Europe for the last time at Marseilles in 1720. This was due to a combinatation of better quarantine measures at ports and Austrain borders with the Ottomans and brown rats replacing the black rats that carried the plague. This plague killed 100,000 in Marseilles and the surrounding area, but Europeans would no longer need to fear the bubonic plague after this.
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