The Medieval Church

a council was gathered at chalcedon

An epidemic in 1333 which would eventually destroyed two-thirds of China’s population hit the northeastern Chinese province of Hopei. It took up to 90% of the population.

1/3 of the population in Western Europe was dead from the plague.

The Black Death appeared in Europe during October 1347 in Messina, Sicily. It arrived through trading ships that was very likely to come from the Black Sea, past Constantinople and the Mediterranean.

Black Death spread to England in 1348. It came to a city name Bristol in England, a famous European port. The plague arrived in the summer months of August or around that time.

The Black Death soon reached England by the year of 1348. Bristol was believed to be the city that Black Death first reached in England. It was an important European port and city in England during the Medieval time.

On November 1st 1348, the Black Death reached London. By February 1349, 200 people were being buried every day.

: Martin Luther circulated 95 theses where he posted them on the door of the Wittenburg Castle Church. The document had the attack on papal abuses and the sale of indulgences by the church

Luther gained great popular support on his ideas

the British isles and much of Germany, Austria and France had broken with Rome.