soldier dies of dysentery after eating unwashed vegetables. This is a common way of contracting dysentery. From a health advisory pamphlet given to soldiers. •
580: Childesinda, son of
Chilperic I, Frankish king, died of dysentery as a child •
580:
Austregilde, Frankish queen, died of dysentery. According to
Gregory of Tours she blamed her doctors for her death and asked her husband, King
Guntram, to have the doctors executed after she died, which he did. •
642:
Cyrus of Alexandria,
Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and
governor of Egypt, died of dysentery on 21 March 642. •
685:
Constantine IV, the Byzantine emperor, died of dysentery on September 685. •
1183:
Henry the Young King died of dysentery at the castle of
Martel on 11 June 1183. •
1216:
John, King of England died of dysentery at
Newark Castle on 19 October 1216. •
1270:
Louis IX of France died of dysentery in
Tunis while commanding his troops for the
Eighth Crusade on 25 August 1270. •
1307:
Edward I of England caught dysentery on his way to the Scottish border and died in his servants' arms on 7 July 1307. •
1322:
Philip V of France died of dysentery at the
Abbey of Longchamp (site of the present hippodrome in the
Bois de Boulogne) in Paris while visiting his daughter, Blanche, who had taken her vows as a nun there in 1322. He died on 3 January 1322. •
1376:
Edward the Black Prince, son of Edward III of England and heir to the English throne. Died of apparent dysentery in June, after a months-long period of illness during which he predicted his own imminent death, in his 46th year. •
1422: King
Henry V of England died suddenly on 31 August 1422 at the
Château de Vincennes, apparently from dysentery, which he had contracted during the
siege of Meaux. He was 35 years old and had reigned for nine years. •
1536:
Erasmus, Dutch renaissance humanist and theologian. At
Basel. •
1596: Sir
Francis Drake,
vice admiral, died of dysentery on 28 January 1596 whilst anchored off the coast of
Portobelo. •
1605:
Akbar, ruler of the Mughal Empire of South Asia, died of dysentery. On 3 October 1605, he fell ill with an attack of dysentery, from which he never recovered. He is believed to have died on or about 27 October 1605, after which his body was buried in
a mausoleum in
Agra, present-day
India. •
1638: Sibylla Schwarz, a young German poet of the baroque era, died of dysentery during the Thirty Year's War in Pommerania at the age of 17. •
1675:
Jacques Marquette died of dysentery on his way north from what is today Chicago, traveling to the mission where he intended to spend the rest of his life. •
1676:
Nathaniel Bacon died of dysentery after taking control of Virginia following
Bacon's Rebellion. He is believed to have died in October 1676, allowing Virginia's ruling elite to regain control. •
1680:
Shivaji, founder and ruler of the
Maratha Empire of South Asia, died of dysentery on 3 April 1680. In 1680, Shivaji fell ill with fever and dysentery, dying around 3–5 April 1680 at the age of 52 on the eve of
Hanuman Jayanti. He was cremated at
Raigad Fort, where his
Samadhi is built in
Mahad, Raigad district of Maharashtra, India. •
1827:
Queen Nandi kaBhebhe, (mother of
Shaka Zulu) died of dysentery on 10 October 1827. with dysentery in a Japanese camp in
Thailand in 1943 •
1873: The explorer
David Livingstone died of dysentery on 1 May 1873. •
1885:
Alfonso XII King of Spain from 29 December 1874 to 25 November 1885 died of dysentery at the age of 27 •
1896:
Phan Đình Phùng, a
Vietnamese revolutionary who led rebel armies against
French colonial forces in Vietnam, died of dysentery as the French surrounded his forces on 21 January 1896. •
1910:
Luo Yixiu, first wife of
Mao Zedong, died of dysentery on 11 February 1910. She was 20 years old. •
1912: Historian
Arnold J. Toynbee contracted dysentery on April 26, 1912, from contaminated water in the Peloponnese; the malady led to his being excused from military service in
World War I. •
1930: The French explorer and writer
Michel Vieuchange died of dysentery in
Agadir on 30 November 1930, on his return from the "forbidden city" of
Smara. He was nursed by his brother, Doctor
Jean Vieuchange, who was unable to save him. The notebooks and photographs, edited by Jean Vieuchange, went on to become bestsellers. •
1942: The
Selarang Barracks incident in the summer of 1942 during
World War II involved the forced crowding of 17,000
Anglo-
Australian
prisoners-of-war (POWs) by their
Japanese captors in the areas around the barracks square for nearly five days with little water and no sanitation after the Selarang Barracks POWs refused to sign a pledge not to escape. The incident ended with the surrender of the Australian commanders due to the spreading of dysentery among their men. == See also ==