The Black Death (1346)
Another outbreak of the bubonic plague that wiped out half the population in Europe, you say? Although we can only guess how many people lost their lives to this particular version, the estimates are somewhere around 80 to 200 million people.
Russian Coronavirus (1889)
That’s right, we’ve had a coronavirus pandemic before. It was long thought that this Russian flu outbreak was a subtype of the infamous H2N2 strain, recent discoveries have proven that it was in fact an offshoot of the coronavirus we’ve been dealing with for the last 18 months. As medical technology wasn’t as advanced as it is now, the disease claimed a million lives despite having peaked after only 5 weeks.
