Digitizing historical plague

DOI

We present newly digitized data on 6,929 plague outbreaks that occurred between 1347 and 1900 AD across Europe. The data base on an inventory initially published 1976. For georeferencing the information of Tele Atlas 2009 was used. The coordinates are in the reference systems ETRS89 and WGS84.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.181
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=2a2b8c5f-c60c-4902-871b-564869addd07
Provenance
Creator Ulf, Büntgen,; Christian, Ginzler, E-9544-2012
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2019
Funding Reference WSL,
Rights odc-odbl; ODbL with Database Contents License (DbCL)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-16.172W, 28.304S, 46.406E, 67.475N); Europe