THE SPREADING OF BLACK DEATH

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  • 430 BCE

    Athens

    430 BC Plague of Athens kills 1/3 of population;
  • 262

    Rome

    262 AD A plague in Rome kills about 5000 people a day.
  • Period: 1338 to 1339

    Asia

    1338 – 1339 Plague reported to be in central Asia.
  • 1345

    Mongols

    1345 Mongols die of plague in the Russian steppes.
  • 1347

    Italy

    Plague is brought to Sicily by a ship from the east.
    The plague hits Venice
  • 1347

    Constantinople

    1347 The plague spreads to Constantinople
  • 1348

    early 1348

    The shipping trade takes the plague to Syria, Palestine, Egypt, northern Africa, Greece, France, and Spain.
  • 1348

    1348

    Plague now in Avignon, France,
    Plague spreads to southern Britain.
    Plague found in Scotland and Ireland.
  • 1348

    Melcombe Regis (in Dorset)

    In June 1348 Black Death arrived at Melcombe Regis (in Dorset)
  • 1352

    Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev.

    Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev.
  • 1352

    Moscow and Kiev.

    Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev.

  • London

    Great Plague of London, in which 70,000 people die.

  • Europe

    Plague has mainly disappeared from Europe.

  • China

    mid 1800s Cases of plague reported in China.

  • Hong Kong, and India

    The plague appears in Hong Kong, and then moves to India, where 10 million will die of it in the next 20 years.
  • Period: to

    San Francisco

    1900-1904 121 people get bubonic plague in San Francisco; only 3 survive.

  • India

    The Second Indian Plague Commission discovers how plague spreads
  • Period: to

    America

    In Los Angeles, 40 people get the plague and only 2 survive.

  • Antibiotic drugs

    Antibiotic drugs cause the death rate of the plague to drop dramatically.

  • India

    54 people die of pneumonic plague in India.