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The Black Death

By S-gobbi.emma
  • The Great Famine
    1315

    The Great Famine

    The Great Famine started in spring 1315 with bad weather that caused bad harvests. The crisis didn’t stop until 1317
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    Hundred Years’ War

    The war between the House of Plantagenet with its cadet the House of Lancaster and the House of Valois started in 1337. In 1336, King Edward III of England claimed to be the crown of France’s lawful heir as he was Philip IV of France’s grandson.
  • 1348

    The plague arrives at Melcombe Regis

  • Period: 1348 to 1350

    The Black Death spreads across Great Britain

    In August 1348, the plague hit Bristol and one month later it reached London. In April 1349, the Black Death arrived in Wales and in July it definitely hit Ireland. In spring 1350, there was a huge outbreak of the epidemic in Scotland.
    The pestilence died out in September 1350.
  • Period: 1361 to 1364

    The Plague of Children

  • Period: 1368 to 1369

    Third Pestilence

  • Period: 1371 to 1375

    Fourth Pestilence

  • 1381

    Peasants’ Revolt

    The revolt was caused by:
    - the socio-economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death pandemic in the 1340s;
    - the high taxes imposed to finance the conflict with France during the Hundred Years' War;
    - instability within the local leadership of London.