The Black Death

Gobi Desert

1320

The Black Death started to spread in 1320. It is believed that the Black Death originated in the Gobi desert. No one knows how or why the black death started.

Lake Issyk Kul

1338

The Black Death reaches Lake Issyk Kul. Bodies buried here were found by modern scientists which makes this some of the first known cases of the bubonic plague. Suspiciously, no one knows how it spread there so it could have been an isolated incident.

Lower Volga River

1345

The Black Death reaches the Lower Volga River. The lower Volga River served as a transportation for the Black Death.

Crimea and Caucasus

1346

The Black Death reaches Crimea and the Caucasus. The black death reached here during a Mongol siege.

Egypt

1346

The Black Death reaches Egypt. The back death came from a ship from Alexandria. The black death caused extreme poverty here. 7000 people died a day.

Messina, Sicily

1347

The Black Death reaches Messina. When a ship came there with the black death most of the people were dead. This came in late June 1347

Alexandria

1347

The Black Death reaches Alexandria. 1000 people died a day.

Italy and Greece

1347

The Black Death reaches Italy and Greece.

Genoa, Venice

1347

The Black Death reaches Genoa.

Constantinople

1347

The Black Death reaches Constantinople. The black death killed 5000 people a day and killed 40% of the population

Mecca

1348

The Black Death reaches Mecca. The illness spread through infected pilgrims.

Britain and Ireland

1348

The Black Death reaches Britain and Ireland. The black death reached England in June 1348.

Northern Europe

1349

The Black Death reaches Northern Europe.

Moscow

1351

The Black Death reaches Moscow. It killed 100000 people.

Yemen

1351

The Black Death reaches Yemen. This killed half the population.

The Vaccine

1892

In 1892 a man named Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine created a vaccine against cholera and the bubonic plague (the black death). Read more about it here