430 BC |
Plague of Athens kills 1/3 of population; may have been bubonic plague. |
262 AD |
A plague in Rome kills about 5000 people a day. |
1338 – 1339 |
Plague reported to be in central Asia. |
1345 |
Mongols die of plague in the Russian steppes. |
1347 |
The plague spreads to Constantinople, a major port city. The plague is also in southern Ukraine. |
Oct. 1347 |
Plague is brought to Sicily by a ship from the east. |
Dec. 1347 |
The plague hits Venice. |
early 1348 |
The shipping trade takes the plague to Syria, Palestine, Egypt, northern Africa, Greece, France, and Spain. |
Spring 1348 |
Plague now in Avignon, France, where the Pope lives. |
late 1348 |
Plague spreads to southern Britain. |
Oct. 1349 |
The Pope condemns the actions of the Flagellants, who were beating themselves in an attempt to avoid the plague. |
late 1349 |
Plague found in Scotland and Ireland. |
1351 |
The Pope’s representatives estimate that 23,840,000 people had died in the Black Death. This was 32% of Europe’s pre-plague population. |
1352 |
Plague attacks Moscow and Kiev. |
1664 |
Great Plague of London, in which 70,000 people die. |
1750 |
Plague has mainly disappeared from Europe. |
mid 1800s |
Cases of plague reported in inland China. |
1894 |
The plague appears in Hong Kong, and then moves to India, where 10 million will die of it in the next 20 years. |
1900-1904 |
121 people get bubonic plague in San Francisco; only 3 survive. |
1907 |
The Second Indian Plague Commission discovers how plague spreads. |
1924-1925 |
In Los Angeles, 40 people get the plague and only 2 survive. |
1940s |
Antibiotic drugs cause the death rate of the plague to drop dramatically. |
Sept. 1994 |
54 people die of pneumonic plague in India. |
