The Black Death

1346

The strain of Y. pestis emerges in Mongolia

May, 1347

One ship arrives in Constantinople, which, once infected, loses as much as 90 percent of its population.

October, 1347

Sicily the plague kills half the population and moves to Messina. 

November, 1347

The plague arrives in France, brought by another of the Caffa ships docking in Marseille. It spreads quickly through the country.

January, 1348 

the plague killed 60 percent of the Venetian population.

April, 1348

The plague awakes an anti-Semitic rage around Europe, causing repeated massacres of Jewish communities.

June, 1348

The plague enters England through the port of Melcombe Regis, in Dorset. 

Summer, 1348

The plague hits Marseille, Paris and Normandy, and then the strain splits, with one strain moving onto the now-Belgian city of Tournai to the east and the other passing through Calais.

October, 1348

Edward blames the plague on garbage and human excrement piled up in London streets and in the Thames River.

February, 1349

One of the worst massacres of Jews during the Black Death takes place on Valentine’s Day in Strasbourg, with 2,000 Jewish people burned alive. In the spring, 3,000 Jews defend themselves in Mainz against Christians but are overcome and slaughtered.

April, 1349

The plague hits Wales, brought by people fleeing from Southern England, and eventually kills100,000 people there.

July, 1349

An English ship brings the Black Death to Norway when it runs aground in Bergen. 

March, 1350

Black Death Fades, Leaving Half of Europe Dead

1351

All total, Europe has lost about 50 percent of its population.

1353

The Bubonic Plague never completely exits, resurfacing several times through the centuries.

March, 1350

Black Death Fades, Leaving Half of Europe Dead

1351

All total, Europe has lost about 50 percent of its population.

1353

The Bubonic Plague never completely exits, resurfacing several times through the centuries.

Arrived in Europe in September 1347, the first stop in Messina, the port city of Sicily in southern Italy. In November, it reached the northern port of Genoa and the French Mediterranean port city of Marseille in January 1348. It broke through Venice and Pisa in January 1348. In March, it took a sprint to occupy Florence, the center of Italy. As a result, the Black Death radiated in these cities by land and water to Europe in all directions: from northern Italy via the Brenner Pass to Tyrol, Carinthia, Styriam to Vienna; in France, starting from Marseille , Swept across the entire country from Provence to Normandy, Paris "fall" in August 1348; in the summer of 1348, the Black Death found a breakthrough in the attack on Britain-the port of Dorset, conquered London in August, and conquered the following year The whole of Britain; in early 1349, the Black Death crossed the Rhine from northeastern France, May to Basel, August Frankfurt, November Cologne, arrived in Hamburg, Bremen, Danzig in 1350 ... The Black Death expedition turned again Northern Europe, turning to Eastern Europe, from 1352 to 1353, finally came to Russia, ending its shocking and bloody journey.