Greatest London death tolls

Greatest London death tolls Disease » 1349: Black Death (over 20,000 deaths) [also 1361, 1375, 1382, 1390, 1399, 1405, 1411, 1426, 1433, 1438, 1463, 1471, 1479 etc] » 1499: plague (20,000 deaths) » 1563: plague again (20,000 deaths) » 1592/93: plague again (20,000 deaths) » 1603: plague again (30,000 deaths) » 1625: plague again (35,000 deaths) » 1636: plague again (10,000 deaths) » 1665: Great Plague (almost 100,000) (15% of the population) (7165 in the worst week) » 1831: cholera (7,000 deaths) » 1848: cholera's back (14,000 deaths) » 1854: cholera again (11,000 deaths) (see John Snow) » 1866: cholera's last appearance (4300 deaths) » 1918/9: influenza (18,000 deaths) » 2020-2: Covid (20,000 deaths confirmed) Violence » 61: Boudicca sacks Londinium (Tacitus claims 70,000 deaths) » 1381: Peasants Revolt (1500 deaths) » 1450: Jack Cade's Rebellion (240 deaths) » 1780: Gordon Riots (850 deaths and 25 hanged) » 1917/18: WW1 zeppelin & biplane air raids (670 deaths) » 1940/41: the Blitz…