What is Great Plague of London?
{{Infobox |name = Infobox/doc |bodystyle = |title = The Great Plague of London |titlestyle = background:#abcdef |image = [[File:Great plague of london-1665.jpg|200px]] |imagestyle = |caption = Collecting the dead for burial during the Great Plague |captionstyle = |headerstyle = background:#ccf; |labelstyle = background:#ddf; |datastyle = |header1 = Details |label2 = Disease |data2 = [[Bubonic plague]] [[epidemic]] |label3= Dates |data3= 1665-1666 |label4=Spread by |data4=[[Flea]]s who bit infected [[rat]]s,<br>then bit people |header5= Victims |label6=Deaths |data6= About 200,000 (1/4 of [[London]]'s [[population]].<ref name=mol/> |belowstyle = background:#ddf; |below = Killed more of England's population than<br>World War I or World War II.<ref name=porter/><ref name=wwi/><ref name=wwii/>}} During the '''Great Plague of London''' (1665-1666), the [[disease]] called the [[bubonic plague]] killed about 200,000 people in [[London]], [[England]].<ref name=mol>{{cite web |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/explore-online/pocket-histories/london-plagues-13481665/great-plague-1665/ |title=The Great Plague of 1665 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2011 |website=museumoflondon.org.uk |publisher=The Museum of London |accessdate=January 28, 2016 |quote=}}</ref> Within seven months, almost one out of every four Londoners died from the plague. At its worst, in September 1665, the plague killed 7,165 people in one week.<ref name=mol /> After this, the [[Mortality rate|rate of deaths]] began to slow down. The Great Plague ended around September 1666. The [[Great Fire of London]], which happened on 2-6 September 1666, may have helped end the outbreak by killing many of the [[rat]]s and [[flea]]s who were spreading the plague. Though most Great Plague victims were Londoners, the plague also killed people in other areas of England. By the time it ended, the Great Plague had killed about 2.5% of England's population.<ref name=porter>{{cite book |last=Porter |first=Ste