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Period: 1315 to 1317
Great Famine In Europe
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Period: 1320 to 1330
Great plague Breaks Out In China
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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
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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
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1361
King Edward
1361 King Edward III demands that the streets of London be cleaned up -
1381
The Peasants’ revolt