Spanish flu pandemic
1918–1920* · Event
Influenza pandemic estimated to have killed 50 million or more people worldwide (some estimates reach 100 million), more than died in WWI; misnamed for early Spanish press coverage.
On these timelines: The Spanish Flu, Master, Medicine & Public Health, Pandemics & Plagues, World War I
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Around 1918
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- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)