1515. Pestilential epidemics in Spain.
1516. Comet.
1517. Unproductive, but not moist summer.
1510. Great influenza (Coqueluche) throughout France, and probably to a still further extent. Plague in the north of Europe.
1517. In the early months epidemic trachæitis and œsophagitis (diphtheritis) in Holland, lasting only eleven days. This epidemic extends towards the south, and appears in the same summer at Bâsle.
1517. On the 16th June, earthquake in Swabia (and Spain).
1517. Encephalitis and other inflammatory fevers in Germany.
1517 In July, outbreak in London of the third visitation of epidemic sweating sickness; it spreads with great malignity all over England, and among the English at Calais; in the sixth week it attains its greatest violence, and terminates in December. Ammonius, of Lucca, and many distinguished and learned persons in Oxford and Cambridge are carriedoff by it.
1517. In December, immediately after the Sweating Sickness, a plague occurs in England and lasts all the winter.
1517. Small-pox breaks out in Hispaniola.