Great Plague of the Baltic
April 1710
Bubonic plague, carried by armies of the Great Northern War, swept through Stockholm, Copenhagen, and the Baltic ports. Riga lost a third of its population; Stockholm buried eight thousand in a single summer. Sweden's already strained war economy buckled under the weight of corpses and quarantine. The plague chose sides in the war.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.