Plague breaks out in north eastern China, killing 5 million people in that year.
1339
Nestorian Christian community in Central Asia wiped out.
1346
Plague reaches Crimea. Genoan merchants return to Sicily spreading the disease.
1347
Plague spreads rapidly to Cyprus and then into modern day Italy, reaching Venice as well as Alexandria in Egypt.
1348
Plague reaches Paris, Marseilles and then England. Moves along the Rhine River into modern day Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg. Outbreaks occur in Cairo and Gaza leading to serious persecution of the Jews.
1349
Widespread persecution of Jews, with thousands burned to death. Plague reaches Aswan in Egypt and the entire Islamic world is now affected.
1350
Plague has largely run its course in the Mediterranean basin.
1351
Plague reaches Russia.
1357
35 million deaths from the plague are recorded since 1333.