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Black Death

By marianaboteroo
  • 1346 BCE

    outbreak of plague

    An outbreak of plague killed large numbers of Mongol troops that were besieging the port of Kaffa.
  • 1338

    Asia

    before this place, earthquakes, floods, and famines devastated Asia.
  • 1347

    Boarded ships

    People of Kaffa boarded ships to escape the plague taking the disease with them.
  • 1347

    It had been carried from the East by trading ships

    Plague reached Constantinople, Turkey. Also the port of Messina, Sicily. Finally the plague reached Venice and Genoa.
  • 1348

    Black Death reaching places

    French port of Marseilles, Spanish port of Coruna, Normandy in northern France, Weymouth in the south of England and Bristol in the West, London, Oslo in Norway were places infested with this disease during this year
  • 1348

    The daughter of Edward III

    she died as a cause of this disease
  • 1349

    We see death coming into our midst like black smoke

    plague invaded Wales

  • Large number of graves

    the Black Death lies in the cemetery in what was once a prosperous town near Lake Issyk-Kul on the fabled Silk Road in Central Asia.