St Anthony's Fire Timeline

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251 CE - 356 CE
Life of Saint Anthony (Anthony the Great).
994 CE
An outbreak of St Anthony's Fire (ergotism) causes 20,000-40,000 deaths in France.
1100 CE
The Order of Hospitallers of St. Anthony is established in Grenoble, France.
1596 CE
The German physician Wendelin Thelius connects the ergot fungus to the rye grain, cause of St Anthony's Fire.