Which do you think was a greater disaster - the plague or the Great Fire? Why?

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Jordan Ewing

4 February, 00:20

Which do you think was a greater disaster - the plague or the Great Fire? Why?

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Addisyn · Answer 1

Two of the greatest disasters in London's history both occurred in the 1660s: plague and fire struck the city in successive years. Neither was a novelty. The bubonic plague was endemic - there were outbreaks in 1603 and 1625 that killed tens of thousands - but neither was as bad as the Great Plague of 1665.