Black death

The Spread Of The Black Death

  • The Plague Arrives In Caffa
    Dec 1, 1347

    The Plague Arrives In Caffa

    The plague started to kill the Tartars in a military seige. Before they left Caffa, they catapulted diseased bodies over the walls of the castle infecting the people who lived inside.
  • The Plague Arrives In Messina, Sicily
    Jun 1, 1348

    The Plague Arrives In Messina, Sicily

    The people of Caffa flee to Messina in Sicily taking the plague with them. The plague then spread up through the rest of Sicily and up into Florence, Genoa and Pisa which had populations of 100,000 before the plague and then lost about 50 - 60% of the population.
  • Infecting German and England
    Dec 1, 1348

    Infecting German and England

    By December in 1348, it had spread through the Alps and up into the states of Germany and England where no one would know that it would kill 1 third of the population.
  • Blaming
    Jun 1, 1349

    Blaming

    By 1349, people were having a lot of theories about how the plague started. The most beleiveable theory was that the Jews had brought it over. This started one of the largest wars ever in Strasbourg.
  • Whole of Germany
    Dec 1, 1349

    Whole of Germany

    By the end of 1349, the black death had covered the nothern regions of Germany
  • Entering the Baltic region
    Jun 1, 1350

    Entering the Baltic region

    By mid 1350, the plague had spread into the Baltic Region
  • The Finish
    Dec 1, 1350

    The Finish

    The plague dies out suddenly at the end of 1350 as it enters the northen region