He was afforded the time to work on his theories due to the closure of Cambridge University by an outbreak of plague.
Filomarino is of particular interest in the history of Naples since he was cardinal during two especially turbulent periods: Masaniello's revolt in 1645 and the severe plague epidemic of 1656.
In 1528 the Genoese Admiral, Andrea Doria, after deserting in favour of Charles, managed to break up the French siege of Naples; his efforts were helped by the plague, which decimated the French besiegers, among them General Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec, who died on 15 August.
It retreated from the siege with the remainder of the French army—crippled by the plague—and surrendered to the Imperial forces in late 1528, disbanding shortly afterwards.
Even its feudalization in later centuries under several lords, vassals of the masters of Milan, did not stop its slow but constant growth; nor did the plague, which hit hard in 1630, traditionally being stopped by the Virgin Mary after the bustocchi, always a pious Catholic flock, prayed for respite from the deadly epidemic.
Some of the miracles claimed in Catald's name include protecting the city against the plague and floods that, apparently, had occurred in neighbouring areas.
The plague struck Clowne in 1586 and 1606, and victims were buried away from the village at Monument Field or Plague Field.
Réim Ríoghraidhe Éireann was completed on 8 August 1649, just as the Bubonic plague entered Galway on a Spanish ship.
In 1349, because the city of Mons was touched by the plague, the authorities decided to organise a procession with the shrine of Waltrude.
Travelling was not then what it is now, and they came in contact with war, robbers, privateers and the plague in the diary of this two years' tour in the East.
This quarter existed until 1348, when the inhabitants of Les Josiols were assassinated due to rumours that they had caused the outbreak of the pest in Mirabel by poisoning the wells.
The town became the centre of Bavarian court life, but was short lived when the town was ravaged by the plague in 1599.
Liss fled to Verona to escape the Plague spreading in Venice, but succumbed there prematurely in 1629.
In the first half of 1416, Jean de Berry and the three Limbourg brothers, all less than 30 years old, died, possibly of plague, leaving the Très Riches Heures unfinished.
In 1592 the village of Luqa was hit by Bubonic plague, which at that time hit all the population of Malta and caused many deaths.
As such, Asaf Jah VI often sought counsel for matters concerning the Bubonic plague epidemic that worried Hyderabad, and other matters as well.
Sheriar and Shireen had one earlier daughter Freiny who died of plague as a small child in 1902.
Sultan al-Mu'ayyad's reign was plagued by troubles: the Bubonic plague, currency devaluation, and rebellious bedouins all disturbed his reign.
It is a late Baroque church built in 1767 in thanksgiving for the end of the plague.
In 1910–11 the entire country was in the grip of an epidemic of plague.
The plague of 1348 and mercenary raids in 1365 and 1376 decimated the population.
In 1894, the deadly Third Pandemic of Bubonic plague spread from China to Hong Kong, causing 100,000 deaths in Canton alone within two months.
In 1626 the farmer Adriaan Mattheussen built a chapel for the people of Oostmalle, which fled the village to escape the Bubonic plague.
In 1615, the monks settled in the area of the Casa da Saúde (Health House), that housed people sick with the plague.
A "plague column" (Slovak: Morový stĺp) was erected in the 18th century in thanksgiving to the Virgin Mary for ending a deadly outbreak of plague.
The following decades, however, were hard on Tielt as it went through two major fires and a couple of epidemics, including the plague.
It was a well-known pilgrimage church built in 1713 in gratitude for the ending of a local epidemic of the plague.
In 1924 he missed his final examinations due to an outbreak of a plague epidemic.
In 1672, during a severe plague epidemic, the citizens of Morella brought the statue of the Virgin Mary from the Sanctuary of Vallivana, and carried it in a procession through the streets of the town.
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An early version of the satirical play The Rehearsal, by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, is prepared for production in London, but is cancelled due to an outbreak of bubonic plague.
He was in Valladolid, Spain, in August 1506, where he died during an outbreak of the plague on 15 August of that year.
The town began to develop during rule by the House of Hohenzollern, although further development of Bogumin was halted by frequent epidemics of bubonic plague and floodings of the Olza.
The Duchy of Württemberg was reinstated after long negotiations resulting in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, despite or maybe because of the effects of war, poverty, hunger and the Bubonic plague all of which reduced the population from 350,000 in 1618 to 120,000 in 1648.
His book Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662 Old Style or 1663 New Style) used analysis of the mortality rolls in early modern London as Charles II and other officials attempted to create a system to warn of the onset and spread of bubonic plague in the city.
He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.
In 1643 Jean Paul Lascaris, Grandmaster of the Knights of Malta, constructed a quarantine hospital (lazzaretto) on the island, in an attempt to control the periodic influx of plague and cholera on board visiting ships.
Next is a "Precious sigh/of pure, self-sacrificing love": a sigh stolen from the dying lips of a maiden who died with her lover of plague in the Ruwenzori rather than surviving in exile from the disease and the lover.
Peter, a son of a farmer and craftsman, was born in the village of Binsfeld in the rural Eifel region, located in the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate; he died in Trier as a victim of the bubonic plague.
When the plague broke out in Vienna in 1521, he completed his studies with a B.A. and moved to Regensburg and then to Landshut.
The Plague of Emmaus (طاعون عمواس in Arabic, ţā`ûn 'amwās transliterated), also known as the Plague of Amwas, was an outbreak of plague, possibly bubonic plague, that occurred in 639 in the town of Emmaus (Amwas) in Palestine.
The first Saint Fulk (there were three) was an English pilgrim who was beatified for his selfless assistance of plague victims even when this was a risk to himself.
It was performed by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre in Drury Lane, in the final winter before the theatres suffered a long closure due to bubonic plague (May 1636 to October 1637) and Shirley himself left London for Dublin (1637).
For example, the Romans spread smallpox through new populations in Europe and the Middle East in the 2nd century AD, and the Mongols brought the bubonic plague to Europe and the Middle East in the 14th century.
The film, directed by Mark Robson and produced by legendary horror producer Val Lewton, centres around a group of people on a small island, whose lives are threatened by a force that some believe to be the plague, and others believe to be the work of a vorvolaka.
The Service first became involved in the situation in 1900 when MHS physician Joseph J. Kinyoun, stationed in San Francisco, confirmed by bacteriological analysis that the death of a laborer in the city's Chinatown section was due to bubonic plague.