the black death

the flagellants

Oct 28, 1259

at medieval times they thort god sent the plague down to punish people for there since so if they had the plagur they would say there sins to try survive. but somepeaple who didnt have the dieses thort that if they were to punish them selfs god would forgive them and make shore they didnt get the dieses

out break of plague in asia

Oct 16, 1346

Plague is a deadly infectious disease that is caused by the enterobacteria Yersinia pestis, named after the French-Swiss bacteriologist Alexandre Yersin. Primarily carried by rodents (most notably rats) and spread to humans via fleas, the disease is notorious throughout history, due to the unrivaled scale of death and devastation it brought. Until June 2007, plague was one of the three epidemic diseases specifically reportable to the World Health Organization (the other two being cholera and yel

Social and Economic Effects of the Plague

Oct 23, 1347

The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are recorded in the introduction of the Decameron. People abandoned their friends and family, fled cities, and shut themselves off from the world. Funeral rites became perfunctory or stopped altogether, and work ceased being done.

plague reaches russia

Oct 23, 1352

The Russian plague epidemic of 1770–1772, also known as the Plague of 1771, was the last massive outbreak of plague in central Russia, claiming between 52 and 100 thousand lives in Moscow alone (1/6 to 1/3 of its population) The bubonic plague epidemic that originated in the Moldovan theatre of the 1768–1774 Russian-Turkish war in January 1770 swept northward through Ukraine and central Russia,

great plague of london

Oct 21, 1400

The Great Plague (1665–66) was the last major epidemic of the bubonic plague to occur in the Kingdom of England (part of modern-day United Kingdom). this was the last time the plague killed massive amounts of people at one time.