The Black Death Time Line

Started in Asia

Jan 1, 1328

The disease spread due to changes in lifestyle – people were moving from country villages to more highly populated towns. It was first spread in Asia and followed the Trade Routes to different places after. The more use of trade routes ensured that the disease spread throughout the world. It was not just Asia that was affected; it was also Europe and Africa that were devastated by the disease. China’s population dropped from 125million to 90 million during just the middle half of the 14th centur

it arrived in Crimea

Jan 1, 1346

Crimea, is a peninsula of Ukraine located on the northern coast of the Black Sea with the Autonomous Republic of Crimea occupying most of the peninsula. It was where the black plague started again

it moved to Alexandria

Sep 1, 1347

The Plague moved from Crimea to Alexandria in Autumn of 1347. Within 6 months of the initial outbreak, the death toll reached to 1,000 person per day.

First appreance in Europe

Nov 1, 1347

The first appearance of the plague in Europe was at Messina, Sicily in October of 1347. It arrived on trading shops came from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and through the Mediterranean. This was a standard trade route that brought European customers such items as silks and porcelain, which were carried overland to the Black Sea from as far away as China.

30-40% of English Population Killed In This Time Period

Period: Nov 1, 1347 to Jan 1, 1351

During this time period, about 30-40% of England's population was killed by the bubonic plague, which is an estimated 5-6 million people.

Black Plague reach mainlands

Nov 7, 1347

Sicily was filled with the horrible disease, but the trading ships brought the plague to other areas around the Mediterranean, infecting the neighboring islands of Corsica and Sardinia by November

The plague spreading

Nov 20, 1347

The plague traveled from Sarai to the Genoese trading station in Tana. The Tartars besieged the city in November, but their siege cut short when the Black Death struck. But stopping the attack, they catapulted dead plague victims into the city to infect its residents.

Plague spreading in South Europe

Jan 1, 1348

The inhabitants of Kaffa fall to the disease, the merchants boarded ships to sail home. When they arrived in Genoa and Venice in January of 1348, a few people were alive to tell the tale

Other countries affected by the Plague

Jan 1, 1348

The South of England was infected by June of 1348 the plague came to Great Britain in 1349. The Plague reached London on 1st November 1348. In London the Black Plague killed about 35-40 % of the population. In Bristol it was told it had killed 35-45% of the population and killed 50% of the population of Winchester.

Plague reached London

Jun 1, 1348

It came to England and first began in towns and ports that joined on the seacoasts, in Dorsetshire. Then it came to Gloucester, Oxford and to London, and finally spread over England. Nearly no one survived.

Plague reaching Paris

Jul 1, 1348

The Black Death reached Paris in 1348 and a city that has about 200,000 people living there. Reaching the months of November and December, Paris was losing about 800 people per day.

Plague spreading throughout England

Jul 1, 1348

The Black Death reached England in 1348. Bristol was known as an important European port and city during that time. It is believed that Bristol was the first place the Black Death reach England. It reached England during summer months between June and August. It reached London by 1st November 1348. London was a crowded city with population around 70,000. The River Thames later brought more ships and infected London, which spread to the rest of England. Church records that the deaths in London we

What was thought to be the cure

May 1, 1350

There was thought to be a cure for this plague which was a gold and silver pomander filled with sweet-smelling petals and herbs. People thought the smell was supposed make the air fresh and shoo the fleas away. But however it didn’t work, the person who thought of the idea and who used the idea caught the Plague and died.

The end for the Black Plague - for now

Jan 1, 1351

In all cases, the Plague just burned itself out, meaning it ran out of people to infect and stopped.

Cleaning up the Plague

Jan 2, 1351

There were only three types of people involved in a Bubonic plague pandemic: those who fled and isolated themselves successfully and never got it; those who got it and survived because of strong immune systems and better nutrition and care; and those who died from it.