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Jan 1, 600
Bubonic plague shows up in Eastern Europe.
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Jan 1, 700
Smallpox outbreak in Japan.
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Jan 1, 1320
The Black Death recedes, but does not completely disappear.
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Jan 1, 1320
Earliest dated sources that refer to the Black Death found in China.
Earliest dated sources that refer to the Black Death found in China. -
Jan 1, 1348
Black Death reaches Europe by the Silk roads.
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Jan 1, 1400
The Bubonic Plague killed 1/3 of Europe's population.
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Jan 1, 1500
Smallpox spreads from North Africa to the New World.
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First microscopes were made.
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First microscopes were made.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek is born.
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'Philosophical Transactions' is published.
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek dies.
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Chester Moor Hall corrected problem of chromatic aberration in compound lenses.
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Technique found by Chester Moor Hall is applied to microscopes.
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Rubella is discovered in Germany.
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Cholera spreads from India to South East Asia.
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French bring cholera to the New World.
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Matthias Schleiden concludes that all plants are composed of cells.
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Theodor Schwann concludes that all animals are composed of cells.
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Robert Koch established bacteriology as science.
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Filippo Paccini publishes his results and discoveries of cholera.
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It became required to get a vaccine for smallpox in the United States.
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Rudolf Virchow reasons that cells come only from other cells.
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Japanese encephalitus is discovered.
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Carlos Chaga is born.
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Charles Louis Alphonse Laveron obserevd parasites for the first time.
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Early effort at malaria prevention occured.
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Sir Ronald Ross proves the complete life cycle of the Malaria parasite in mosquitoes.
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Carlos Chaga is the first man to be infected with Chaga disease.
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Ross River virus is discovered.
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There is an outbreak of Chaga disease in Brazil.
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The first electron microscope was invented.
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Norman Gregg noticed rising numbers of people infected with Rubella.
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Pulmonary tuberculosis wiped out 15% of population in Russian Siberia.
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Shinya Inoue invents techniques necessary to observe the dynamics of living cells.
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Chaga disease became a public health issue.
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There is a large, major epidemic in the U.S. with Rubella.
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Vaccine for Rubella is licensed.
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Smallpox is eradicated.
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Official cure for tuberculosis founded by WHO.
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The scanning microscope began to reveal objects atom by atom.
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Chronic kidney disease is discovered and recognized in Guam.
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Chronic kidney disease reaches its peak so far.
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As of this year, there are 35 million people infected with AIDS world wide.
