The English monarchy issued royal decrees calling for establishment of permanent quarantines
In 1663, the English monarchy issued royal decrees calling for the establishment of permanent quarantines for people infected…
In 1663, the English monarchy issued royal decrees calling for the establishment of permanent quarantines for people infected…
In 1663, the English enacted a quarantine on all ships bound for London requiring each to pause at…
In 1663, during a smallpox epidemic in New York City, the General Assembly passed a law forbidding people…
In 1656, after a plague epidemic kills 100,000 people in Naples, Rome began inspecting all incoming ships and…
In 1647, Boston officials enacted an ordinance requiring all arriving ships to stop at the harbor entrance or…
In 1521, the first maritime quarantine opened in Marseilles, France. The quarantine system in Marseille lasted from 1620…
In 1403, Venice established the world’s first known maritime quarantine station, or lazaretto, on Santa Maria di Nazareth,…
In 1377, ships entering Italian ports during plague outbreaks were required to lie at anchor for forty days…
In 1370, the town of Ragusa in Italy established a quarantine station where all people arriving from plague-infected…
In 1348, Venice established the world’s first institutionalized system of quarantine that gave a council of three the…
In 1200, quarantines in Europe were common with more than 19,000 leprosaria, or houses for leper patients located…
Emperor Justinian I (482-565 BCE) contracted the plague, but survived. A series of laws were enacted against those…