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430 BC
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During the second year of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote about a disease that is believed to have been the Plague.
1333
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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. About five million Chinese people were hit by this plague. Since China was known as one of the busiest world trading nations. It was only a matter of time before the outbreak of China spread through Western Asia and Europe.
1347
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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. While Sicily was suffering from these diseases. The trading ships brought the disease to other places around the Mediterranean, infecting the nearby islands like Corsica and Sardinia.
1348
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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. This was just the beginning stage of the plague.
1349
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3,000 Jews were killed in Erfurt, Germany because of the Black Death. The Jews tried to defend themselves from the mob of Christians. None of them survived from the Christian mobs. The ones that survived the Black Death were soon destroyed by the mobs, by 1350. There were almost no Jews left in Germany in 1351.
2/2/1349
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Hundreds of people were being buried everyday in the Smithfield Graveyard in London. People were dying so quickly that the graveyard ended up 5 metres deep.
1350
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Plague starts to fade away in London
1351
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All of Europe is now infected!
9/2/1666
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In 1666 the Great Fire of London destroyed much of the centre of London, but also helped to kill off some of the black rats and fleas that carried the plague bacillus. Bubonic Plague was known as the Black Death and had been known in England for centuries. It started slowly at first but by May of 1665, 43 had died. It was not as deadly.
September 2005
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Three mice were infected with Bubonic Plague disappear from a laboratory at the Public Health Research Institute in New Jersey.