Black death

The Spread Of The Black Death

By sam.woodruff21
  • Dec 1, 1347

    The Plague Arrives In Caffa

    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.
  • Jun 1, 1348

    The Plague Arrives In Messina, Sicily

    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.
  • Dec 1, 1348

    Infecting German and England

    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.
  • Jun 1, 1349

    Blaming

    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.
  • Dec 1, 1349

    Whole of Germany

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

    Entering the Baltic region

    Entering the Baltic region
    By mid 1350, the plague had spread into the Baltic Region
  • Dec 1, 1350

    The Finish

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