WWI · SITE OF MEMORY · 1918–19

Spanish flu pandemic (1918–19)

On the WWI map as “The influenza pandemic”

1918-19 — The “Spanish” flu kills at least 50 million people worldwide, more than the war itself; most of the dead are in the colonized world. One hypothesis traces a mutation through the base camp here at Étaples. Crowded wartime camps and troopships carry the disease around the world.

When: 1918-19
Type: Site of memory
Chapter: Armistice and the end of WWI (chapter 13 of WWI)
Atlas: The Great War, 1871–1923

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Map showing Spanish flu pandemic (1918–19), site of memory in The Great War, 1871–1923 — SITE OF MEMORY · THE GREAT WAR, 1871–1923

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cliopatria v 0.2.1 · Natural Earth physical geography · Treaty of Versailles: Rhineland occupation

Source details

Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. Source polygons retained with original identities; geographic selections and corrections by Maps of History.. CC BY 4.0
Made with Natural Earth; geographic reference and physical land only. No modern political boundary is used as a historical boundary.. Public domain
Versailles articles 428–432; Rhineland occupation and bridgeheads.. Historical treaty facts; original geographic reconstruction

Annual source features can describe claims, legal territory or military control. Occupied extensions are separated from the prewar Central Power homelands, while the original source names and shapes remain available.

The nearest published outlines after the event, from 1919, replace the preceding wartime control shown by the 1918 source. This is an explicit date proxy, not an exact monthly partition.

The displayed state is iss 18 nov. Geographic reference dates and reconstruction methods are recorded for each feature.

reconstruction: 1918.87 · vector: 1815–1937 · vector: 1848–1935 · vector: 1864–1921 · vector: 1905–1921 · vector: 1908–1935 · vector: 1912–1919 · vector: 1912–1921 · vector: 1912–1955 · vector: 1916–1919 · vector: 1917–1919 · vector: 1917–1921 · vector: 1918–1919 · vector: 1918–1926 · vector: 1918–1938 · vector: 1919–1919 · vector: 1919–1921 · vector: 1919–1923 · vector: 1919–1937

Layer records and reconstruction methods