The Black Death - Timeline By rachel2023 Period: 1347 BCE to 1347 BCE 4. Outbreaks in Messina, Alexandria, Constantinople, Italy, Greece & Egypt Period: 1338 BCE to 1339 BCE 2. Plague spreads to Lake Issyk Kul Period: 1320 BCE to 1330 BCE 1. The plague begins in the Gobi Desert Period: 1345 to 1345 3. Lower Volga River Period: 1346 to 1346 5. Crimea and Caucasus Period: 1347 to 1347 6. Messina: Sicily, Alexandria, Constantinople, Italy, Greece and Egypt Period: 1348 to 1348 7. Britain, Ireland and Genoa, Venice Period: 1349 to 1349 8. Northern Europe, Mecca Period: 1351 to 1351 9. Yemen Period: 1353 to 1353 10. Moscow