Black Death
The plague pandemic devastated communities across Europe, North Africa and Asia, causing enormous mortality and long-term demographic, economic and social change.
Why Black Death matters
The plague pandemic devastated communities across Europe, North Africa and Asia, causing enormous mortality and long-term demographic, economic and social change.
This page brings together database records matching Black Death, bubonic plague and plague 1348. Use the chronological results to compare dates, people, places, countries and related events without losing the wider historical sequence.
Sources and provenance
Historical records on this page are drawn from the World History Database maintained by Malcolm Badley and are selected dynamically using the research terms shown above. The historical image is credited to its source above. Record wording and dates should be checked against primary or specialist secondary sources when used for academic citation. Corrections can be sent to [email protected].