The English fleet of Admiral Vernon that took Portobello lays seige to Cartegena but is driven away by mosquito borne malaria and yellow fever. 35 are hanged or burned at the stake in the resulting witch hunt.
Russian pioneers cross the Bering Strait to North America.
Calvinism spreading in New England. Typhus strikes Austria and France. Yellow fever in Cadiz Spain. Jean Etienne de Bor born. He will be the first Mayor of New Orleans under the Americans 1803-1804.