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430 BC Plague of Athens kills 1/3 of population;
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262 AD A plague in Rome kills about 5000 people a day.
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1338 – 1339 Plague reported to be in central Asia.
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1345 Mongols die of plague in the Russian steppes.
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Plague is brought to Sicily by a ship from the east.
The plague hits Venice -
1347 The plague spreads to Constantinople
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The shipping trade takes the plague to Syria, Palestine, Egypt, northern Africa, Greece, France, and Spain.
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Plague now in Avignon, France,
Plague spreads to southern Britain.
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In June 1348 Black Death arrived at Melcombe Regis (in Dorset)
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Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev.
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Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev.
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Great Plague of London, in which 70,000 people die.
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Plague has mainly disappeared from Europe.
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mid 1800s Cases of plague reported in China.
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The plague appears in Hong Kong, and then moves to India, where 10 million will die of it in the next 20 years.
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1900-1904 121 people get bubonic plague in San Francisco; only 3 survive.
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The Second Indian Plague Commission discovers how plague spreads
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In Los Angeles, 40 people get the plague and only 2 survive.
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Antibiotic drugs cause the death rate of the plague to drop dramatically.
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54 people die of pneumonic plague in India.