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  • 97 A.D. – First book on water supplies

    999 - 0 A.D., Italy
  • Circa 50 A.D. – Purification of water

    999 - 0 A.D., no info
  • 18 A.D. – Roman Baths (thermae) opened by Vipsanius Agrippa

    999 - 0 A.D., Italy
  • 643 – Compensation for injuries

    999 - 0 A.D., Italy
  • 644 – Edict of Rotharus, King of Lombardy, for segregation of lepers

    999 - 0 A.D., France, Italy
  • 1183 – Paris constructed an aqueduct to supply water to the city.

    1299 - 1000, France
  • 1235 – Conduits and lead pipe systems

    1299 - 1000, United Kingdom
  • 1273 – First smoke abatement law

    1299 - 1000, United Kingdom
  • 1281 – Swine in the streets of London forbiden

    1299 - 1000, United Kingdom
  • 1297 – Regulations for keeping fronts of houses clean

    1299 - 1000, United Kingdom
  • 1348 – Venice (First Board of Health and Quarantine)

    1399 - 1300, Italy
  • 1350 – First sanitary police program

    1399 - 1300, France
  • 1371 – Royal order forbidding slaughtering of animals in London and suburbs

    1399 - 1300, United Kingdom
  • 1388 – First English Sanitary Act (Richard H.)

    1399 - 1300, United Kingdom
  • 1486 – Statute by Henry VH regulating slaughter houses

    1499 - 1400, United States of America
  • 1496 – Bathing prohibited at Nuremberg

    1499 - 1400, Germany
  • 1518 – Nuremberg ordinance regulating sale of food

    1599 - 1500, United States of America
  • 1519 – First quarantine established in the new world at Santo Domingo

    1599 - 1500, United States of America
  • 1524 – First ordinances for control of human creta

    1599 - 1500, United States of America
  • 1527 – First pumps for water supply

    1599 - 1500, Germany
  • 1543 – Water supply and sewage plant (with farm) at Bunzlau (Silesia)

    1599 - 1500, Germany
  • 1558 – Luigi Cornaro publishes treatise on personal hygiene

    1599 - 1500, Italy, United States of America
  • 1593 – Elizabethan Act against overcrowding of London houses

    1599 - 1500, United Kingdom
  • 1596 – First modernvalve water-closet

    1599 - 1500, United Kingdom
  • 1599 – Prohibited sale of milk, butter and cheese

    1599 - 1500, Austria
  • 1610 – In the Virginia colony, the first hygiene law was established in North America

    1699 - 1600, United States of America
  • 1624 – Louis Savot improves the fireplace

    1699 - 1600, France
  • 1631 – The General Assembly of Virginia enacted a law to collect vital statistics

    1699 - 1600, United States of America
  • 1647 – Massachusetts (U.S.) passed a temporary quarantine law

    1699 - 1600, United States of America
  • 1658 – dr. Marko Gerbec

    1699 - 1600, Slovenia
  • 1659 – Athanasius Kircher observed bacteria in milk for the first time

    1699 - 1600, Germany
  • 1683 – Leeuwenhock describes and figures bacteria

    1699 - 1600, United Kingdom
  • 1705 – dr. Marko Anton plemeniti Plenčič

    1799 - 1700, Slovenia
  • 1712 – The first position of “State Health Officer” in North America

    1799 - 1700, United States of America
  • 1726 – dr. Anton Muznik

    1799 - 1700, Slovenia
  • 1730 – The sales of meat from tuberculous cows was forbidden in Munich

    1799 - 1700, Germany
  • 1750 – First street cleaning Department in North America

    1799 - 1700, United States of America
  • 1761 – The first steam driven water pump was installed in London

    1799 - 1700, United Kingdom
  • 1762 – Boisseau suggested chemical treatment of sewage

    1799 - 1700, United States of America
  • 1774 – The Laws for sanitating prisons in England were passed

    1799 - 1700, United Kingdom
About Historia Sanitaria

about“Historia Sanitaria” is designed in online form so that we can chronologically arrange landmark events and achievements of individuals in the field of sanitary profession. We cover different periods of history as well as recent developments. In the preparation of the individual contributions we take into account the relevance for the field of sanitary profession and, of course, the availability of data. Historia Sanitaria substantively and chronologically covers the activities of colleagues in Slovenia, its immediate neighbor countries and throughout the world, particularly in the United States and Great Britain.
Content of contributions is not final. Namely, this is the living form of the contributions which are continuously updated and upgraded. Historia Sanitaria enables the possibility of supplementing existing posts, as well as adding new ones. You are welcome to send us additional suggestions so that the younger generations of graduates and the wider public will have an insight into the development of sanitary profession.

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Articles by year

From 2017 to 2000

2006 – Smokefree legislation UK
3. 9. 2006
all articles

1999 - 1900

1956 – Clean Air Act
5. 7. 1956
1954 – Slum clearance
3. 12. 1954
1945 – California passed the first bill for the registration of Sanitarians
3. 4. 1945
all articles

1899 - 1800

1899 – Sir Ronald Ross demonstrated that malaria could be controlled by mosquito control
7. 4. 1899
1899 – Hookworm eggs found in the stool
7. 4. 1899
1898 – Rat flea identified as a carier of bubonic plague
8. 4. 1898
all articles

1799 - 1700

1797 – Massachusetts passed a law allowing local boards of health to be established
14. 4. 1797
1793 – The first local Board of Health in the US was created in Baltimore
14. 4. 1793
1786 – Protection of factory apprentices
14. 4. 1786
all articles

1699 - 1600

1683 – Leeuwenhock describes and figures bacteria
14. 4. 1683
1659 – Athanasius Kircher observed bacteria in milk for the first time
14. 4. 1659
1658 – dr. Marko Gerbec
17. 4. 1658
all articles

1599 - 1500

1599 – Prohibited sale of milk, butter and cheese
14. 4. 1599
1596 – First modernvalve water-closet
14. 4. 1596
1593 – Elizabethan Act against overcrowding of London houses
14. 4. 1593
all articles

1499 - 1400

1496 – Bathing prohibited at Nuremberg
14. 4. 1496
1486 – Statute by Henry VH regulating slaughter houses
14. 4. 1486
all articles

1399 - 1300

1388 – First English Sanitary Act (Richard H.)
14. 4. 1388
1371 – Royal order forbidding slaughtering of animals in London and suburbs
14. 4. 1371
1350 – First sanitary police program
14. 4. 1350
all articles

1299 - 1000

1297 – Regulations for keeping fronts of houses clean
14. 4. 1297
1281 – Swine in the streets of London forbiden
14. 4. 1281
1273 – First smoke abatement law
14. 4. 1273
all articles

999 - A.D.

644 – Edict of Rotharus, King of Lombardy, for segregation of lepers
24. 4. 0644
643 – Compensation for injuries
25. 4. 0643
18 A.D. – Roman Baths (thermae) opened by Vipsanius Agrippa
25. 4. 0100
all articles

B.C.

all articles
Articles by country

Austria

1786 – Protection of factory apprentices
14. 4. 1786
1599 – Prohibited sale of milk, butter and cheese
14. 4. 1599
all articles

France

1900 – Ringelmann chart
7. 4. 1900
1880 – Pierre Miquel devised the first exact method for enumeration of bacteria in water
10. 4. 1880
1877 – Louis Pasteur – Germ Theory
10. 4. 1877
all articles

Germany

1890 – Koch discovered tuberculin
8. 4. 1890
1886 – Pasteurization of milk for infant nutrition (Franz von Soxhlet)
10. 4. 1886
1877 – Koch’s Postulates
10. 4. 1877
all articles

Slovenia

1923 – Ustanovljen je Higienski zavod v Ljubljani
17. 4. 1923
1726 – dr. Anton Muznik
17. 4. 1726
1705 – dr. Marko Anton plemeniti Plenčič
17. 4. 1705
1658 – dr. Marko Gerbec
17. 4. 1658
All articles

United Kingdom

2006 – Smokefree legislation UK
3. 9. 2006
1956 – Clean Air Act
5. 7. 1956
1954 – Slum clearance
3. 12. 1954
all articles

United States of America

1945 – California passed the first bill for the registration of Sanitarians
3. 4. 1945
1938 – Enactment of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act
3. 4. 1938
1938 – Fair Labor Standards Acts passed
3. 2. 1938
all articles
On line magazine: Historia Sanitaria
Publishing by: Zavod Inštitut za sanitarno inženirstvo / Institute of Food Safety and Environmental Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Historia Sanitaria is indexed and/or abstracted in COBIB.SI Union biblographic catalogue database
EXECUTIVE EDITOR
Aleš KRULEC, Institute of Public and Environmental Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia
EDITOR IN CHIEF

Assist. Prof. Andrej OVCA, PhD, BSc Sanitary engineering University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia

EDITOR

Assist. Sara TAJNIKAR, MSc, BSc Sanitary engineering, Institute of Public and Environmental Health, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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