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Storm and plague sweep through Italy and Europe in 1739
News from November 7 to 20 report violent storms causing massive damage in Cava and Nocera, heavy snow in Genoa hills, widespread illness, and ships bringing the Marquess de la Chetardie’s domestic staff to Saint Petersburg. Dispatches describe Polish Ottoman negotiations, Swedish-Finnish troop movements, and cautious neutrality amid Spain Britain war, with France urged toward a fragile balance of power.
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Nocera
St. Severine
Genoa
Petersbourg
Rouen
Marquess de la Chetardie
France
Finland
Stockholm
Meke Forne
Sweden
Russia
Keith
Octa- Kow
Constantinople
Ottoman Porte
Prihan
Enies
Geart
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Zbor
Republick of
Poland
Carlowitz
Iris
Parte
Porte
Muscovy
Dafwer
Republick
Choczim
Sorocca
Budziack
Crown of
Dantzick
Vienna
Paris
London
Lisbon
Spain
Great Britain
Italy
Florence
Tuscany
Boulogne
Fontainbleau
Marquess de Fenelon
Count de Cambis
Europe
House of Bourbon
Rhine
Flanders
Dresden
Moldavia
Kieff
Munich
Soroka
Madrid
America
Porto Rico
Porto Bello
Denmark
House of Austria
de Sinclair
Augustus
Stanislaus
Livonia
Servia
Groatia
Bannat
Czarina
Riffa