The first major cholera pandemic to reach the United States first reached Russia , Hungary (about 100,000 deaths) and Germany in 1831, London (more than 55,000 people died in the United Kingdom and Paris in 1832. In London, the disease claimed 6,536 victims and came to be known as "King Cholera"; in Paris, 20,000 succumbed (out of a population of 650,000) with about 100,000 deaths in all of France. The epidemic reached Quebec, Ontario and New York in the same year and the Pacific coast of North America by 1834.  The 1831 cholera epidemic killed 150,000 people in Egypt.