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1320
Gobi Desert
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. -
1338
Lake Issyk Kul
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. -
1345
Lower Volga River
The Black Death reaches the Lower Volga River. The lower Volga River served as a transportation for the Black Death. -
1346
Crimea and Caucasus
The Black Death reaches Crimea and the Caucasus. The black death reached here during a Mongol siege. -
1346
Egypt
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. -
1347
Messina, Sicily
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 -
1347
Alexandria
The Black Death reaches Alexandria. 1000 people died a day. -
1347
Italy and Greece
The Black Death reaches Italy and Greece. -
1347
Genoa, Venice
The Black Death reaches Genoa. -
1347
Constantinople
The Black Death reaches Constantinople. The black death killed 5000 people a day and killed 40% of the population -
1348
Mecca
The Black Death reaches Mecca. The illness spread through infected pilgrims. -
1348
Britain and Ireland
The Black Death reaches Britain and Ireland. The black death reached England in June 1348. -
1349
Northern Europe
The Black Death reaches Northern Europe. -
1351
Moscow
The Black Death reaches Moscow. It killed 100000 people. -
1351
Yemen
The Black Death reaches Yemen. This killed half the population. -
The Vaccine
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