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Black Death

1346–1353 pandemic in Eurasia and North Africa

27 dated entries naming Black Death, drawn from 20 separate years between 1331 CE and 1649 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Black Plague, Great Plague, The Black Death in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

  • 1331The first recorded outbreak of the Black Death occurs, in the Chinese province of Hebei.source
  • 1335December 1 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan dies, a victim of the plague that ravages the Ilkhanate. This is an early outbreak of the Black Death. His death without a clear heir causes the Ilkhanate to disintegrate.source
  • 1338A Black Death plague strain originates near Lake Issyk-Kul in modern Kyrgyzstan, according to Syriac tombstone inscriptions and genetic material from exhumed bodies.source
  • 1345March 4 – Guy de Chauliac observes the planets Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars conjoined in the sky, under the sign of Aquarius, and a solar eclipse on the same day. This sign is interpreted as foreboding by many, and Chauliac will later blame it for the Black Plague.source
  • 1346Spring – A severe Bubonic Plague epidemic begins in the Crimea, marking the first major epidemic of the Black Death.source
  • 1346October–November – Several Mongol towns in the Crimea are cleared of inhabitants by the Black Death.source
  • 1347Genoese ships fleeing the 1331 Black Death plague in Theodosia stop in Constantinople, contaminating the city.source
  • 1347October – Ships arrive in the Sicilian city of Messina, carrying people afflicted by the Black Death onboard.source
  • 1348By June 24 – The Black Death pandemic reaches England, having probably been brought across the English Channel by fleas on rats aboard a ship from Gascony to the south coast port of Melcombe (modern-day Weymouth, Dorset); by November it will have reached London and by 1350 will have killed one third to a half of its population.source
  • 1348The Black Death pandemic spreads to central and western Europe and to Cairo.source
  • 1348January 25 – The 6.9-magnitude 1348 Friuli earthquake centered in Northern Italy is felt across Europe. Contemporary minds link the quake with the Black Death, fueling fears that the Biblical Apocalypse has arrived.source
  • 1349Christmas to March – the Black Death: "The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny during Lent ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died."source
  • 1349February 14 – Jewish persecutions during the Black Death: Strasbourg massacre – Because they are believed by the residents to be the cause of the Black Death, roughly 2,000 Jews are burned to death.source
  • 1349August 24 – The Black Death breaks out in Elbing (Poland).source
  • 1350The Black Death first appears in Scotland and Sweden.source
  • 1351The Statute of Labourers deals with a labour shortage caused by the Black Death.source
  • 1353The Black Death (1331) subsides.source
  • 1357Geoffrey the Baker reported that in late 1357 the Black Death took the Gaelic-Irish "unawares and annihilated them everywhere"source
  • 1374A form of the Great Plague returns to Europe.source

15th century

  • 1403The world's first quarantine station, the Lazzaretto Vecchio, is built in Venice, to protect against the Black Death.source
  • 1412The Black Death sweeps England for a final time, in a 60-year period.source

16th century

  • 1539In Henan province, China, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse, by a major epidemic outbreak of the plague.source
  • 1596The Black Death hits parts of Europe.source

17th century

  • 1644December – Bubonic plague breaks out in Edinburgh (Scotland).source
  • 1645March 31 – Fearing the spread of the Black Death (plague), Edinburgh Town Council prohibits all gatherings except weddings and funerals.source
  • 1645April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be moved forward, so that students can leave the city (on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow).source
  • 1649August 8 – Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh completes Book VIII of Leabhar na nGenealach, in Galway, within days of an outbreak of the plague.source

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