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    The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3]

  2. Key points. The Black Death killed many people in the 1340s and 1350s. In 1665, another plague outbreak arrived in England. This is often referred to as the ‘Great Plague.’. During the outbreak...

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    1346 The strain of Y. pestis emerges in Mongolia, according to John Kelly’s account in The Great Mortality. It is possibly passed to humans by a tarabagan, a type of marmot. The deadliest outbreak is in the Mongol capital of Sarai, which the Mongols carry west to the Black Sea area. Mongol King Janiberg and his army are in the nearby city of Tana w...

    January, 1348 A different plague strain enters Europe through Genoa, brought by another Caffan ship that docks there. The Genoans attack the ship and drive it away, but they are still infected. Italy faces this second strain while already battling the previous one. Y. pestisalso heads east from Sicily into the Persian Empire and through Greece, Bul...

    Summer, 1348 A group of religious zealots known as the Flagellants first begin to appear in Germany. These groups of anywhere from 50 to 500 hooded and half-naked men march, sing and thrash themselves with lashes until swollen and bloody. Originally the practice of 11th-century Italian monks during an epidemic, they spread out through Europe. Also ...

    October, 1348 Following the infection and death of King Edward III’s daughter Princess Joan, the plague reaches London, according to King Death:The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late-Medieval Englandby Colin Platt. As the devastation grows, Londoners flee to the countryside to find food. Edward blames the plague on garbage and human excrement pi...

    July, 1349 An English ship brings the Black Death to Norway when it runs aground in Bergen. The ship’s crew is dead by the end of the week and the pestilence travels to Denmark and Sweden, where the king believes fasting on a Friday and foregoing shoes on Sunday will please God and end the plague. It doesn’t work, killing two of the king’s brothers...

    1351 The plague’s spread significantly begins to peter out, possibly thanks to quarantineefforts, after causing the deaths of anywhere between 25 to 50 million people, and leading to the massacres of 210 Jewish communities. All total, Europe has lost about 50 percent of its population. 1353 With the Black Death considered safely behind them, the pe...

    Learn how the Bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, swept through Europe in the 14th century and killed millions of people. See the key dates, events and sources of this devastating outbreak and its impact on history.

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  3. Mar 10, 2011 · The Plague. The first outbreak of plague swept across England in 1348-49. It seems to have travelled across the south in bubonic form during the summer months of 1348, before mutating into...

  4. Sep 17, 2010 · The Black Death was a global epidemic of bubonic plague that killed millions of people in the 14th century. Learn about the origins, symptoms, spread and consequences of the Black Death, also known as the year of the plague.

  5. Learn about the history and impact of the Black Death, the devastating plague that killed millions of people in Europe in the 14th century. Explore the key facts, dates, and events of the pandemic and its aftermath.

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