Black Death 2

By CallumSharp
  • Period: 1315 to 1317

    Great Famine In Europe

  • Period: 1320 to 1330

    Great plague Breaks Out In China

  • 1347

    Mongols

    Mongols use ‘germ warfare’ to defeat the Genoese in Caffa (a port on the Black Sea) by catapulting dead bodies of plague-infected soldiers over the walls
  • 1347

    Plague Reaches Europe

  • 1349

    Germany

    Mob murders 2000 Jews in Strasbourg (Germany)
  • 1349

    Labourers

    The ‘Ordinance of the Labourers’ was passed in England - this was an attempt to keep wages at pre-plague levels
  • 1350

    King Alfonso

    King Alfonso of Castile (Spain) dies from the plague
  • 1352

    Plague begins to recede

  • 1361

    King Edward

    1361 King Edward III demands that the streets of London be cleaned up
  • 1381

    The Peasants’ revolt