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1333
Nǐ Hǎo,China!
Central China; the place some historians believe is the first outbreak of the plague. Here, the plague killed off 90% of the population & began to spread to the rest of Asia & Europe. -
1347
Ciao, Europe >:-)
The Black Death appeared in Europe during October 1347 in Messina, Sicily. It arrived through trading ships that was very likely to come from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and the Mediterranean.
While Sicily was suffering from these diseases. The trading ships brought the disease to other places around the Mediterranean, infecting the nearby islands like Corsica and Sardinia. -
1348
Bonjour, France!
In 1348 the plague swept northward through France from Marseille. A quarter to a third of the French people died during the next two years. Plague remained endemic for the next 350 years and contributed to further declines in the French population. By the middle of the 15th century, plague and war had wiped out most of the population increases of previous centuries. -
Nov 1, 1348
Ello Gov’na!
France wasn’t the only country affected at this time.The Black Death also reached London, England. The hygiene in London was poor and the living conditions were unbelievably dirty and disgusting. The well-known River Thames carried more ships and infection to London which spread to the rest of England. -
1349
Oy, Deutschland.
By this time the Plague has killed majority of Europeans. However, in Germany there was a mass hysteria. The Christians were under the impression that the Jews poisoned the water supply. So in 1349, 3,000 Jews were killed in Erfurt, Germany because of the Black Death. The Jews tried to defend themselves from the mob of Christians. None of them survived. The ones that survived the Black Death were soon destroyed by the mobs, by 1350. There were almost no Jews left in Germany in 1351. -
1349
Too Many Bodies!
The Black Plague continued its rampage through Europe. By February 1349, 200 people were being buried every day. They were buried at the Smithfield graveyard, people died so quickly the graveyard was neatly piled 5 deep. -
1349
The King Is Done!
In 1349 Edward III ordered the Mayor of London to clean the city’s streets, he complained that the streets and lanes of London were “foul with human faces”, and the air of the city is dangerous to people passing by, specifically in the time of infectious disease, the Black Death. Laws were passed to lower the amount of work for the butchers and tanners, since they work with dead, smelly animals. But the problem was far than just the unpleasant smells. -
1349
Jå Svëden.
the Black Death came to Bergen, Norway, with a ship from England. This was probably at the beginning of September. From Bergen the plague spread rapidly northwards and southwards along the coast and over land to Eastern Norway. The Black Death remained in Norway for approximately six months. -
1351
Privyet!
By this time the Plague reached Russia. It wasted no time infecting thousands. -
1351
I Salute Thee!
A law passed at the end of the Black Death to stop the peasants taking advantage of the shortage of workers and demanding more money. Peasants were forced to work for the same wages as before, and landowners could insist on labour services being performed, instead of accepting money (commutation). This meant that the landowners could profit from shortages, whilst life was made very much harder for the peasants living in these Plagued times. -
1379
How Are Things In Gloucester?
The Black Plague had killed 80% of Europe’s population. In 1379, a report came out that 4 Gloucestershire villages were completely killed off. -
1388
4th Outbreak
By this time there were 3 strands of the plague. In 1388 a fourth plague broke out. This time the disease only affected adults, leaving many children orphaned. -
The Great Plague of Milan
In 1629,in northern Italy, the Black Plague broke out again. It stole the lives of about 280,000 people, the places with partially high death rates were in Venice and Lombardy. The Venetian troops moved away to the North and Central Italy with the disease, and spread out the disease. People with the in Milan disease were moved outside the city to die or recover. -
Kill It With Fire!
On September 2,1666 a massive fire broke out across London. It burned many churches, homes, and other buildings. Despite the damage, there was a silver lining. The fire ended the Plague by wiping out London's rats and fleas that spread the plague and burned down the insanitary houses which were a breeding ground for the disease. -
Austria
The fires stopped plague outbreaks, but only shortly. In 1679, it broke out in Vienna, Austria. The city was crippled by the epidemic, which recurred fitfully into the early 1680s, claiming an estimated 76,000 residents. -
What We Know
In 1850,scientists discovered anti-plague antibiotics that are still being used and advanced today. Today the plague is pretty neutral. The latest plague outbreak here in the United States happened here in Los Angeles from 1924-1925. Since the 1990s most plague cases have occurred in Africa, typically in small communities or agricultural areas. Nonetheless, science continues to advance its cure for the plague to stray away from another global epidemic.
