Plague Devastates Vienna
1679
Bubonic plague swept through Vienna in the summer, killing an estimated seventy-six thousand people in a city of barely two hundred thousand. Bodies piled in the streets faster than gravediggers could haul them away. Emperor Leopold I fled to Prague while his capital choked. The Pestsaule column would later memorialize the horror in gilded baroque.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.