{"slug": "plague-disease", "label": "Plague (disease)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_%28disease%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133780", "qid": "Q133780", "description": "specific contagious and frequently fatal human disease caused by Yersinia pestis", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [125, 1479], "span_label": ["125 CE", "1479 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 9}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "eastern-roman-empire", "label": "Eastern Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "numidia", "label": "Numidia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marcus-aurelius", "label": "Marcus Aurelius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marcomanni", "label": "Marcomanni", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germanic-tribes", "label": "Germanic tribes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-emperor", "label": "Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 125, "year_label": "125 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Plague sweeps North Africa in the wake of a locust invasion that destroys large areas of cropland. The plague kills as many as 500,000 in Numidia and possibly 150,000 on the coast before moving to Italy, where it takes so many lives that villages and towns are abandoned. (or was it around 125 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188707#Africa", "title": "AD 125", "revid": 1371188707, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 172, "year_label": "172 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Marcus Aurelius crosses the Danube with an expeditionary force. He subdues the Marcomanni and their allies and then, in a pact signed with the Germanic tribes, he imports them into the Roman Empire to occupy areas that have been depopulated by the plague.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303180#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 172", "revid": 1371303180, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 251, "year_label": "251 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "In Rome, Hostilian, son of Decius, succeeds his father, while Trebonianus Gallus is proclaimed Emperor by the troops. Gallus accepts him as co-emperor, but an outbreak of plague strikes the city, and kills Hostilian.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188077#Roman_Empire", "title": "251", "revid": 1371188077, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 321, "year_label": "321 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Constantine I assigns convicts to grind Rome's flour, in a move to hold back the rising price of food in an empire whose population has shrunk as a result of plague.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598330#Food_and_Drink", "title": "321", "revid": 1360598330, "section": "Events › By topic › Food and Drink"}}, {"year": 452, "year_label": "452 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Rome is threatened by Attila but not attacked, due to a last-minute effort by Leo I. Threatened by news of reinforcements from the Eastern Roman Empire and the plague breaking out among the Huns, Attila is persuaded to withdraw.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662685#Europe", "title": "452", "revid": 1342662685, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 598, "year_label": "598 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The Avars rout the Byzantine forces of Comentiolus (south of Haemus Mons), and capture Drizipera (Thrace). A large part of their troops are killed by the plague, after many cities are devastated in the Balkan Peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751875#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "598", "revid": 1364751875, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 681, "year_label": "681 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 10", "text": "January 10 – Pope Agatho dies at Rome of plague after a 2½-year reign, in which he has persuaded Constantine IV to abolish the tax heretofore levied at the consecration of a newly elected pope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367426529#Religion", "title": "681", "revid": 1367426529, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 875, "year_label": "875 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Muhammad II, emir of the Aghlabids, dies and is succeeded by his brother Ibrahim II. Towards the end of his reign, a caravan of pilgrims from Mecca introduces the plague in Ifriqiya (Tunisia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352180718#Arabian_Empire", "title": "875", "revid": 1352180718, "section": "Events › By place › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 1004, "year_label": "1004 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "An episode of plague and famine breaks out in North Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369529611#Africa", "title": "1004", "revid": 1369529611, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1022, "year_label": "1022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Outbreak of the plague among the German troops forces Henry II to abandon his campaign in Italy. He reimposes his suzerainty on the Lombard principalities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213197#Europe", "title": "1022", "revid": 1342213197, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1479, "year_label": "1479 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The plague breaks out in Florence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359855824#Ongoing", "title": "1479", "revid": 1359855824, "section": "Events › Ongoing"}}]}