Gdańsk
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In Gdańsk, a total of 3 epidemic events are known so far. It is a a city in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland. The coordinates are 54° 20' 54.60" N, 18° 39' 13.20" E.
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| Disease | DateStart date of the disease. | SummarySummary of the disease event | OriginalOriginal text | TranslationEnglish translation of the text | ReferenceReference(s) to literature | Reference translationReference(s) to the translation |
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| 1462-00-00-Gdansk | 1462 JL | Great plague in Gdańsk | Denn Anno 1461. am Tage Creutzes Erhebung ist daselbst ein dermassen hefftiges Ungewitter entstanden / daß allein im Tieffe sechtzig Schiffe mit einssten Vergangen / und in der Stadt 37. kleine Thürmlein von der Kirchen abgeworffen sind worden / darauf im folgendem Jahre eine grosse Peste gefolget ist. | In the year 1461, on the day of Creutz's uprising [September 14], such a violent storm arose there / that in the lows alone sixty ships were destroyed / and in the town 37 small towers were thrown down from the church / followed by a great plague in the following year. | Der Stadt Dantzig Historische Beschreibung, p. 16. November 1465. | Translation by Thomas Wozniak |
| 1464-00-00-Gdańsk | 1464 JL | Great mortality in Gdańsk and Lübeck | Item disz yor [1464] war in dantzke, lubke zc. grosse sterbung. | Furthermore in ths year was a great mortality in Gdańsk and Lübeck. | Caspar Weinreichs Danziger Chronik, p. 2 | Translation by Thomas Wozniak |
| 1464-00-00-Prussia | 1464 JL | In this year a plague raged in Gdańsk which claimed 5000 lives before the feast of St Michael (September 29) and further 800 lives between St Michael and the feast of the saints Simon and Judas (October 28). | Eodem anno saeviebat mirum in modum pestis Gedani fueruntque sepulta 5000 hominum ante festum sancti Michaelis apud sanctam Gertrudem, a festo autem sancti Michaelis usque ad festum sanctorum Simonis et Iudae 800 homines. | In this year a plague raged in a peculiar way in Gdansk and there were 5000 humans burried before the feast of St Michael near [the church of] St Gertud, but 800 [humans] from St Michael until the feast of the saints Simon and Judas. | Annales Olivienses, in: Monumenta Poloniae Historica, vol. VI, pp. 360-382, p. 367 | Translation by Christian Oertel |
