Black Death

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  • 540

    540 A.D

    An outbreak of Plague occurs at Pelusium, Egypt.
  • 542

    542 A.D

    Plague reaches Constantinople.
  • Apr 4, 1347

    1347

    Black Plague spreads through Western Europe
  • Dec 6, 1347

    1347

    Plague then reaches Italy.
  • Jan 24, 1348

    1348

    Plague reaches France and Germany.
  • Dec 27, 1349

    1349

    1/3 of the population in Western Europe was dead from the plague.
  • Jan 2, 1350

    1350

    Afterwards the plague reaches Eastern Europe.
  • Jan 10, 1351

    1351

    The plague reaches Russia.
  • Jan 12, 1353

    1353

    Outbreak of Black Death in Florence, Italy.

  • 1665

    Great Plague of London begins, and 43 people died by May.

  • 1711

    The plague breaks out in Austria.

  • 1889

    The Pandemic begins to near an end.

  • Sept 2005

    Three mice infected with Bubonic Plague disappear from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute in New Jersey.