Black Plague Time Line

  • 540

    An outbreak of the Plague occurs

    An outbreak of the Plague occurs at Pelusim Eygpt
  • 542

    Plague reaches Constantiople

  • Jan 1, 1347

    It reaches Alexandria, Cyprus, and Sicily

  • Jan 1, 1347

    plague reaches Italy

  • Jan 1, 1348

    Plague Reaches France and Germany

  • Jan 1, 1349

    Giovanni Boccaccio finishes writting the Decameron, Narrative that opens with a discription of the 1348 outbreak

  • May 1, 1349

    Reaches Norway

  • The Great Plague of London begins, with 43 people dying

  • The Great Fire of London destroys most rats and fleas infected with the Plague

  • The Third Pandemic finally comes to an end

  • 5,000 causes of Pneumonic Plague occur in Surat, India

  • 3 mice infected with the Plague disapper from a laboratory in New Jersey