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The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a devastating pandemic that first struck Europe in the mid-late-fourteenth century (1347–1351), killing between one-third and two-thirds of Europe's population. Almost simultaneous epidemics occurred across large portions of Asia and the Middle East, indicating that the European outbreak ...
Mar 3, 2005 · The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague, a disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis that circulates among wild rodents where they live in great numbers and density. Such an area is called a ‘plague focus’ or a ‘plague reservoir’.
At the time of the epidemic, most people would have called the disease 'the pestilence' or 'the Great Mortality'. The term 'Black Death' specifically refers to the outbreak of the plague disease ...
25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. It was one of the most fatal pandemics in human history; as many as 50 million people [2] perished, perhaps 50% of Europe's 14th century population. [3] The disease is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread by ...
The pandemic of bubonic plague that swept across Europe between 1347 and 1353 is known today as the Black Death, though contemporaries called it the "Great Pestilence," and the disease itself was generally known as peste. During these years, plague affected the lives of all Europeans, and killed nearly half of them.
Nov 24, 2001 · Victims first suffered pain, fever and boils, then swollen lymph nodes and blotches on the skin. After that they vomited blood and died within three days. The survivors called it the Great Pestilence.
1400. 1400 ( MCD ) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1400th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 400th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 14th century, and the 1st year of the 1400s decade. As of the start of 1400, the Gregorian calendar was 8 days ahead of the ...
