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1348		The Black Death or Plague prompts new artistic themes in Europe such as the Danse Macabre or Dance of Death (depicting a line of people holding hands and led by Death in the form of a huge skeleton or dark figure)
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1348		Black Death reaches Devon killing about one third of the population of the county
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1348		Black Death kills approx. 48% of Bristol
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1348.May		Black Death or Bubonic Plague arrives in Britain through Melcombe Regis in Dorset having ravaged mainland Europe In three years it is thought one third of Europe\\\'s population perished
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1369		Third outbreak of the Black Death
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1521.Aug.13		Tenochtitlan falls to Hernando Cortez because of a plague - Spanich conquest of the Aztec empire
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1563		Outbreak of the plague at Dorchester
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1579		Outbreak of the plague at Dorchester
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1592		Outbreak of the plague in London
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1595		Outbreak of the plague at Dorchester
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1628		Publication of William Harvey\'s Essays on the Motion of the Heart and Blood
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1644		Death of Sir John Bankes of the plague in London
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1645		Poole suffers and outbreak of the plague
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1665		The Great Plague of London
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1665.Sep.15		Charles II and the Duke of Monmouth sail into Poole Harbour as the court flees the plague in London and dine with the mayor of Poole
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1722		Last major European outbreak of bubonic plague at Marseilles in France
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1857.Dec.03		Birth of Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)

1944.Nov.29		Performance of the first opean heart surgery (John Hopkins Hospital)

1955.Sep.24		US President Eisenhower suffers heart attack while on vacation in Denver

1958.Jul.13		Death of cosmetic surgeon Dr Claire Straith (1891) Dr Straith developed many techniques of plastic surgery and designed new surgical instruments for this type of surgery. She was instrumental in auto idustry\'s use of safety glass for windscreens in the US

1962.Jan.01		Dr Watson (US) and Drs Crick and Wilkins (Britain) awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA

1967.Dec.03		First human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard in South Africa

1982.Dec.02		Successful implant of the first permanent artificial heart by surgeons at University of Utah into retired dentist Barney Clark Clark lived 112 days with the Jarvic-7 heart

1986.Aug.06		Death of William J Schroeder died after surviving 620 days with the Jarvik Seven artificial heart

1998.Oct.23		Murder of Dr Barnett Slepian in Buffalo, NY Dr Slepian who performed legal abortions, shot at home through the kitchen window by a sniper

2003.Oct.19		British Prime Minister Tony Bleaire is treated for 5 hours at London\'s Hammersmith Hospital for an irregular heart rythm

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