Black death

  • 1330

    Rodents running from natural disasters got into villages and towns spreading the disease

  • 1338

    The black death starts to spread in Asia

  • Feb 1, 1345

    trade routes spread the disease

  • Mar 1, 1345

    The disease traveled from Asia to Sarai and Astrkhan

  • Jul 1, 1345

    Europeans tried to escape by sea but only spread the disease even more

  • 1346

    Plague broke out in Constantinople

  • 1346

    The black death killed a crew of 332 men in a ship going to Alexandria

  • 1347

    The epidemic reached Genoa

  • 1347

    the Genoese tried to destroy the disease but failed in the process

  • 1348

    Sea ports and boats got infected and spread the disease across the world

  • 1348

    It spread to Cyprus, Aleppo, Damascus, and Jerusalem

  • Jun 1, 1348

    The epidemic got to Paris

  • Jul 1, 1348

    The black death spread to Germany, Poland, and Hungary

  • 1349

    The disease got to England

  • Jan 1, 1349

    Winter didn't stop the illness, as the weather was still mild and wet

  • Dec 1, 1349

    People wrote wills 30% the normal annual rate

  • 1350

    The black death got to Scotland and Scandinavia

  • 1350

    King of Spain died

  • 1351

    The disease sprad to Greenland

  • 1353

    The plague got to Moscow

  • 1353

    The Patriarch and the grand duke of Kaffa died of plague

  • Dec 1, 1353

    The disease ended in Kaffa where it all started

  • 1354

    A third of western Europe initial population was dead because of the plague