Medicine & Public Health
Explore Medicine & Public Health on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Black Plague reaches Europe (1347)
- Black Death (1346)
- NHS founded (1948)
- COVID-19 pandemic (2019)
- Smallpox decimates the Americas (1520)
- AIDS pandemic identified (1981)
- Justinianic Plague (541)
- Spanish flu pandemic peaks (1918-19) (1918)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Smallpox arrives in the Americas (1518)
- Influenza pandemic kills more than the war (1918)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic (2020)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- First COVID-19 vaccines approved (2020)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2014)
- Spanish flu peaks in second wave (1918)
- End of COVID PHEIC (2023)
- First successful organ transplant (kidney) (1954)
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- COVID-19 in the UK (2020)
- Lister introduces antiseptic surgery (1865)
- Beveridge Report (1942)
- Salk polio vaccine (1955)
- First IVF baby (1978)
- Hippocrates of Cos (460 BCE)