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The year 1400 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar . Events. January–March. January 4 – The Epiphany Rising begins in England against King Henry IV by nobles planning to restore King Richard II to the throne, and is quickly crushed. Baron Lumley dies after attempting to seize Cirencester.
Mar 3, 2005 · The outbreak of the Black Death in the Prussian town of Elbing (today the Polish town of Elblag) on August 24th, 1349, was a new milestone in the history of the Black Death. A ship that left Oslo at the beginning of June would probably sail through the Sound around June 20th and reach Elbing in the second half of July, in time to unleash an ...
Deaths. 25,000,000 – 50,000,000 (estimated) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. 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] Bubonic plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and spread ...
- 1346–1353
- Bubonic plague
- 75,000,000–200,000,000 (estimated)
The phrase “leap year,” which probably refers to the jump in days of the week—a calendar date usually moves forward one day of the week per year, but it moves two days in a leap year ...
Apr 23, 2020 · The years 1347-1351 saw Europe in the terrifying grip of the worst pandemic it had ever suffered: At least one-third of Europe’s population died from what became known as the Black Death. An ...
- Antoni Virgili
- 4 min
Date unknown. Births. Deaths. 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.
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 ...
