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11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

11th September 2026
Tagged as: Birmingham, Britain, Disease, England, Medicine, Smallpox, Vaccination

Janet Parker first became ill on 11 August, but nine days passed before she was admitted to hospital and her infection was identified as smallpox.

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30th November 1803: Balmis Expedition sets sail to vaccinate inhabitants of Spanish colonies against smallpox

30th November 2023
Tagged as: Americas, Disease, Medicine, Phillipines, Science, Smallpox, South America, Spain, Spanish Empire, Vaccination

The expedition systematically infected orphaned boys with cowpox throughout the duration of the voyage so that the live vaccine survived all the way to the Americas.

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14th May 1796: English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tests the process of vaccination against smallpox using cowpox infection

14th May 2022
Tagged as: Discovery, Disease, Edward Jenner, Medicine, Science, Smallpox, Vaccination

Jenner scientifically tested, and proved, that infection with the mild disease of cowpox gave immunity to the more dangerous smallpox disease.

Tag: Smallpox

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

30th November 1803: Balmis Expedition sets sail to vaccinate inhabitants of Spanish colonies against smallpox

14th May 1796: English physician and scientist Edward Jenner tests the process of vaccination against smallpox using cowpox infection

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

10th October 1780: The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills an estimated 22,000 people, making it the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record

9th October 1665: King Charles II moves Parliament to the University of Oxford to escape the Great Plague

8th October 1480: The Great Stand on the Ugra River by Ivan III

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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