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Natural History
The Black Death and Its Legacy
The plague pandemic that killed an estimated 30 to 60 percent of Europe's people between 1346 and 1353. This timeline covers its spread, the responses to it and its long-term effects.
by Hannah Lindqvist · 4 tracks · 16 events
13151315 – 1894
Origins and SpreadResponses and BeliefsAftermath and Understanding
1315
1338
1346 – 1349
The plague crosses Europe in four years
1353
1377
1381
1403
Plague kept returning to European cities for another two and a half centuries.
262 years · AI-written context
1665
Plague faded from Western Europe for reasons still not fully understood. The bacterium was identified in 1894.
229 years · AI-written context
1894
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