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* The first cases of what will be known as the [[Great Plague of London]] appear in the city's outskirts. The disease will become more widespread and fatal the following year, after the plague [[bacteria]] are genetically augmented by a group of escaped [[Terileptil]] criminals. As a precaution against spreading the plague, King [[Charles II]] orders the theaters closed, an act which puts actor [[Richard Mace]] out of work, forcing him to become a highwayman ("[[The Visitation]]"). | * The first cases of what will be known as the [[Great Plague of London]] appear in the city's outskirts. The disease will become more widespread and fatal the following year, after the plague [[bacteria]] are genetically augmented by a group of escaped [[Terileptil]] criminals. As a precaution against spreading the plague, King [[Charles II]] orders the theaters closed, an act which puts actor [[Richard Mace]] out of work, forcing him to become a highwayman ("[[The Visitation]]"). | ||
* [[Cambridge University]] closes as a precaution against [[plague]], and one of its students, [[Isaac Newton]], returns to his home at [[Wikipedia: Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth |Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth]]. Sometime after this he is sitting under an apple tree from which [[the Doctor]] begins lobbing apples onto Isaac's head, hoping to help Isaac discover [[gravity]]. Isaac instead tells the Doctor to clear off out of his tree, and the Doctor must instead explain the whole thing to him over dinner ("[[The Pirate Planet]]"). | |||
