Edward Jenner
1749–1823 · Person
English country doctor and pioneer of vaccination.
On these timelines: Medicine & Public Health, Medicine through Time, Pandemics & Plagues, England, Master
More from Medicine & Public Health
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica (1543)
- Hippocrates (460 BCE)
- Harvey describes the circulation of the blood (1628)
Around 1749
- Haitian Revolution (1791)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- American Declaration of Independence (1776)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- French Revolution (1789)
- American Revolution (1775)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)