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In what year did the Aachen dancing mania — the larger, less famous predecessor of the 1518 Strasbourg outbreak — strike?
Following a major Rhine flood in early summer 1374, hundreds of people in Aachen began to dance in the streets and could not stop. The mania moved up the Rhine to Liège, Cologne, Maastricht, Tongeren, and Utrecht. It was the largest medieval outbreak of what would later be diagnosed as either ergotism or mass psychogenic illness.
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The Larger Dancing Plague Nobody Remembers In July 1374, after a major Rhine flood, hundreds of people in Aachen began to dance in the streets and could not stop. The plague moved with them up the river.
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