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The Black Death

By katrina florencio
  • The Beginning
    Jan 1, 1333

    The Beginning

    The Black Death erupted in China.
  • Jan 1, 1334

    Reached Europe

    Plague occurs in Constantinople
  • Period: Feb 21, 1339 to Feb 21, 1346

    Famine

    The famine occurs. This goes on for seven years and is known as "the famine before the plague."
  • May 1, 1339

    It then reaches Norway.

  • Oct 1, 1347

    1347 CE

    Plague broke out among the troops of the Kipchak Khan, who was besieging the Black Sea port of Kaffa. He catapulted dead bodies over the city walls. When Italian trading vessels in the harbor returned to Genoa, they carried the plague to Europe.
  • Nov 1, 1347

    1347

    The Black Plague began spreading through Western Europe
  • Nov 2, 1347

    Nov 1347

    The beginning of the Black Death (1347-1351) which appears during a time of economic depression in Western Europe and reoccurs frequently until the fifteenth century. The Black Death is a combination of bubonic and pneumonic plagues and has a major impact on social and economic conditions.
  • Nov 29, 1347

    Fall 1347

    Reports of the plague are recorded in Alexandria, Cyprus, and Sicily.
  • Dec 20, 1347

    Winter 1347

    Plague then reaches Italy.
  • Jan 31, 1348

    January 1348

    the plague reaches France and Germany.
  • Feb 1, 1349

    1349

    -1/3 of the population in Western Europe was dead from the plague. That is roughly 25 million people. 
    -3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany.
    -Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black Death riots.
  • Mar 27, 1350

    While besieging Gibraltar, Alfonso XI of Castile died of the black death.

    Afterwards the plague reaches Eastern Europe. More specifically, it reaches London, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.
  • May 29, 1351

    The plague reaches Russia

  • Jun 20, 1352

    The Black Death by this year had killed 25 million people in Europe alone.

  • Apr 20, 1356

    A war begins between the English and the French directly following an occurrence of the Black Death in France. French peasants suffer the most economically, as is usual in medieval times during war.

  • The Great Plague of London begins, and  43 people died by May.

    There was no litigation in London, England due to the Black plague.
  • Period: to

    Number of Deaths

    -6,137 people die by June
    -17,036 people die by July.
    -31,159 people die by August

  • Fire in London

    A fire demolished about four-fifths of London which started at the house of King Charles II's baker, Thomas Farrinor. Approximately 13,200 houses, 90 churches and 50 livery company halls burned down or exploded but only claimed only 16 lives. It actually helped impede the spread of the Black Plague, as most of the disease-carrying rats were killed in the fire.

  • The plague devastates central Europe

    There is a small outbreak in England – the last outbreak England will ever see.

  • Plague breaks out in Austria.

  • A major pandemic, known as the Third Pandemic, begins in China and spreads throughout the world, with China and India affected the most. Overall, this pandemic brings death to more than 12 million people.

  • Period: to

    The pandemic starts up again and flares up in Russia, China, and India.

  • The Discovery

    Working independently, bacteriologists Alexandre Yersin and Shibasaburo Kitasato both isolate the bacterium that causes bubonic Plague. Yersin discovers that rodents are the mode of infection. The bacterium is named Yersinia pestis after Yersin.

  • Almost over

    The pandemic in China and India is over.

  • Albert Camus publishes The Plague, a novel about a fictional outbreak of plague in Oran, Algeria.