Pandemics & Plagues
Explore Pandemics & Plagues on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Black Death (1346)
- COVID-19 pandemic (2019)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Smallpox decimates the Americas (1520)
- Smallpox declared eradicated (1980)
- AIDS pandemic identified (1981)
- Justinianic Plague (541)
- Jenner's smallpox vaccine (1796)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Smallpox arrives in the Americas (1518)
- Plague returns: Second Pandemic (1361)
- Invention of quarantine (1377)
- Antonine Plague (165)
- Cholera epidemic of 1854 / John Snow (1854)
- First COVID-19 vaccines approved (2020)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- First plague pandemic (541)
- Cholera pandemics of the 19th century (1817)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Salk polio vaccine (1955)
- Plague of Athens (430 BCE)
- Plague arrives at Caffa (1346)
- Columbian Exchange (1492)
- Third plague pandemic (1855)
- Black Plague reaches Europe (1347)
- World Health Organization founded (1948)
- The flu devastates India (1918)
- Edward Jenner (1749)
- Ebola outbreak in West Africa (2013)
- Spanish flu peaks in second wave (1918)