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- Justinian’s Plague Ended the Classical Age, and Kick Started the Feudal Era. Justinian’s Plague hit Europe hard: an estimated 40% to 50% of the continent’s population perished during the pandemic’s tragic course and aftermath.
- Black Rats Carried the Plague Across the World of Late Antiquity. The strain of Yersinia pestis bacterium responsible for Justinian’s Plague originated near in Central Asia, near the border between modern China and Kyrgyzstan.
- Before the Black Death, There Was Justinian’s Plague. The Black Death was history’s deadliest plague. Tragic and lethal as it was, Justinian’s Plague, 541 – 542 AD, gives it a run for its money in deadliness and long lasting consequences.
- The Tragic Events of the Black Death Shaped the World. The Black Death’s longer-term consequences revolved around the sudden impact of a significantly reduced population.
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May 27, 2023 · The 20th century was marked by some of the most devastating events in human history, with wars, conflicts, natural disasters, and diseases taking countless lives and shaping the world we live...
- The Covid-19 Pandemic: 1,000,000
- The Us Civil War: 750,000
- The HIV/AIDS Epidemic: 700,000
- The 1918 Flu Pandemic: 675,000
- World War II: 405,400
- World War I: 116,516
- The Vietnam War: 58,220
- The Korean War: 36,914
- The 1900 Galveston Hurricane: 8,000
- The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: 3,000
In early 2020, the first reports circulated of a deadly and contagious new respiratory disease centered in Wuhan, China. The novel strain of coronavirus claimed its first American victims in February and COVID-19, as the disease became known, erupted into a full-blown public health crisis by March, triggering widespread shutdowns of U.S. schools an...
The awful death toll of the Civil War may never fully be known. For more than a century, the number was enshrined at 618,222 fatalities: 360,222 from the Union North and 258,000 from the Confederate South. But in recent decades, historians raisedthe number to an estimated 750,000 deaths, mostly blamed on the under-counting of Confederate casualties...
In 1981, doctors began reporting mysterious cases of rare types of pneumonia and cancers among predominately gay men in New York and California. The condition, which was later found in blood transfusion recipients and intravenous drug users, was given a name by the CDC in 1982: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. Researchers soon identified...
The 1918 flu claimed an unfathomable 50 to 100 million victims worldwide, including an estimated 675,000 Americans. Wrongfully labeled the “Spanish flu,” the first confirmed case of this virulent strain of influenza was actually a U.S. Army cook stationed in Kansas in March of 1918. Spring fatalities from the 1918 flu were similar to the seasonal f...
The bitter terms of Germany’s surrender in World War I crippled the German economy and bred both contempt for the Allied powers and antisemitic conspiracies of a Jewish/communist plot to destroy Germany from within. Adolf Hitlerand his National Socialist (Nazi) party rode to power in 1933 and put plans in motion to establish an “Aryan” German empir...
Europe slid into war in 1914, but the United States, under President Woodrow Wilson, vowed to remain neutral in the foreign conflict. But after German torpedoes sank the passenger ship Lusitaniain 1915, killing 120 Americans, public sentiment began to shift. The U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, and deployed hundreds of thousands of co...
America’s long and unpopular war with Communist North Vietnam began as a targeted military intervention and devolved into a decade-long war of attrition. As antiwar protestors took to the streets of America burning draft cards, millions of young men were shipped out to fight in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia against an unflagging en...
Dubbed “The Forgotten War,” the Korean Warwas a major conflagration between armed nuclear powers that ultimately cost the lives of 36,914 U.S. servicemen. The Korean War was the first test of the United Nations, which sent in troops to defend South Korea after a June 25, 1950 invasion by Communist North Korea backed by China and the Soviet Union. N...
The hurricane that battered the island city of Galveston, Texas with 150-mph winds and drowned it with 15-foot storm surges remains the deadliest natural disaster in American history. An estimated 8,000 men, women and children were killed during the Category 4 storm, which lifted thousands of houses off their moorings and smashed them to pieces on ...
At the turn of the 20th century, San Francisco was a Western boom town with a population of 400,000, many of them crowded into hastily constructed wood and brick tenements in the city’s poorer South of Market district. At 5:13 am on April 18, 1906, Northern California was jolted awake by a massive earthquakethat ruptured 296 miles of the San Andrea...
- The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Catches Fire (Mar. 25, 1911) By Michele Anderson. The Triangle Shirtwaist Company’s fire resulted in the tragic loss of nearly 150 young women and girls on March 25, 1911, in New York City.
- The Great Migration Begins (1915) By Isabel Wilkerson. In today’s world African Americans are viewed as urban people, but that’s a very new phenomenon: The vast majority of time that African Americans have been on this continent, they’ve been primarily Southern and rural.
- The Prophet Is Published (Sept. 23, 1923) By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. In the aftermath of World War I, the Lebanese-born, Boston-based poet-philosopher Kahlil Gibran wrote what would become one of the world’s most translated works of philosophy: The Prophet.
- The KKK Marches in Washington (Aug. 8, 1925) By James Loewen. When the KKK paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., the headline in the New York Times declared “Sight Astonishes Capital: Robed, but Unmasked Hosts in White Move Along Avenue.”
Key events of the 20th century. The 20th century changed the world in unprecedented ways. The World Wars sparked tension between countries and led to the creation of atomic bombs, the Cold War led to the Space Race and the creation of space-based rockets, and the World Wide Web was created. These advancements have played a significant role in ...
Jun 25, 2020 · Mark Philip Bradley is a professor of history at the University of Chicago, and author of The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century. Read more about My Lai, on TIME.com
