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Sep 10, 1331
Widespread epidemic disease in China
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Sep 10, 1335
Europe-Wide Famine
Due to failing harvests, excessive rainfall combined with cattle and sheep diseases, famine falls upon Europe -
Sep 10, 1346
Mongol troops on the Black Sea rea infected wtih plague
"The Merchant's Handbook" by an Italian author reports that the road from China to the Black Sea is safe to travel by day and night increasing travel via the Black Sea. Mongol troops are infected and begin to use the Black Sea for travel. -
Sep 10, 1347
Outbreak of the Black Death
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Sep 10, 1348
The Black Death reaches Europe
Reaches France, England, Tunisia and Mecca. The Jews are blamed for the plague and the Pope issues official statements declaring their innocence. -
Sep 10, 1349
Black Death reaches Scandinavia
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Sep 10, 1351
Black Death reaches Moscow
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Sep 10, 1353
Boccaccio writes about the Black Death
Italian humanist Boccaccio's book, The Decameron, describes the Black Death in Florence. -
Sep 10, 1361
Europe-wide recurrence of plague
Mortality especially high amoung children. There are local, regional, and sometimes wider recurrences of the plague every 5-12 years or so. -
Sep 10, 1374
Quarantine imposed by the Venetian Republic
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Sep 10, 1382
Europe-wide recurrence of plague
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Sep 10, 1391
Major pogrom in Spain, again scapegoating the Jews for new outbreak of plague
In 1391 violent pogroms broke out all over Spain where there were Jewish communities. Thousands of Jews were murdered; Jewish women and children were sold as slaves to Muslims, most synagogues and many homes and businesses were burnt to the ground.
