When did the following event happen?
Proposals for the metric system are accepted by the French revolutionary assembly.
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1918
The Spanish flu pandemic begins as an unusually deadly influenza virus, infecting around 500 million people over the course of the next 2 years.
Note:
BCE means that the date is the number of years before the current era (CE/AD).
c. is short for 'circa' and indicates that the date is considered approximate.