Which Year Was the Bubonic Plague?
One of the Worst Plagues in History Arrived at Europe's Shores in 1347. Five Year's Later, Some 25 to 50 Million People Were Dead. Nearly 700 Year's After the...
One of the worst plagues in history arrived at Europe's shores in 1347. Five years later, some 25 to 50 million people were dead. Nearly 700 years after the Black Death swept through Europe, it still haunts the world as the worst-case scenario for an epidemic.
When did the bubonic plague start and end?
The plague arrived in western Europe in 1347 and in England in 1348. It faded away in the early 1350s.
Was there a bubonic plague in 1920?
Bubonic plague appeared in Galveston, Texas, in early June 1920. This outbreak is considered to be part of the third pandemic which started in China in 1894 and moved westwards.