9 other epidemics were probably as or more devastating than smallpox

• tepitonzahuatl (measles), 1531.

• cocoliztli (?), 1546-47

• matlazahuatl (typhus?), 1576-77

• famine and typhus, 1692

• typhus, 1737-39

• the great hunger, 1786-88

• typhus, 1813

• cholera, 1833

• influenza, 1918

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