General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enea_Silvio_Piccolomini_(general)" id="mwMQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Enea Silvio Piccolomini (general)">Enea Silvio Piccolomini</a> of Austria <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje_fire_of_1689" id="mwMg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Skopje fire of 1689">burns down Skopje</a> to prevent the spread of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera" id="mwMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cholera">cholera</a>; he dies of the disease soon afterwards.