1563 ⟶ Plague Outbreak in Elizabethan England
Plague outbreak claimed 80,000 people in Elizabethan England...
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Plague outbreak claimed 80,000 people in Elizabethan England. In London alone, over 20,000 people died of the disease.⟶
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