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The Cabinet June 24, 2026 · City of London

The Last Great London Plague Killed About a Quarter of the City in Eight Months

Between the spring and the autumn of 1665, plague killed roughly 70,000 to 100,000 Londoners — about a quarter of the city's population. It was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in England. Six months later the Great Fire burned down most of the worst-affected districts.

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The Cabinet June 23, 2026 · London, during the Great Plague of 1665

The Plague Novel Defoe Wrote Fifty-Seven Years After the Plague

Daniel Defoe was five years old during the Great Plague of London in 1665. He published *A Journal of the Plague Year* in 1722 as if it were the first-person account of an eyewitness. Critics took a hundred and fifty years to figure out that he had invented most of it.

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