History of world pandemics

By David045
  • Period: 541 BCE to 542

    Plague of Justinian

    • Byzantine Empire Commonly known as bubonic plague. It was carried by rats and transfered to humans 1/4 of the Earth's population died
  • Period: 1347 to 1351

    Black Death

    It formed dark swellings of buboes
    It took up to 200 million dead
    1/3 of global population
  • Period: to

    Spanish Flu

    Infected around 500 million worldwide
    It took 4% of the world's population
  • Period: to

    COVID-19

    Began in China, in a lab outbreak
    It has reached all over the world
    15.8-27.2 million deaths (estimated)