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World

General

Population: 370 Million*
  • Entertainment: Boccaccio writes Decameron - stories told by people fleeing from plague
  • Religion: Pope Clement VI proposes pilgrimage to Rome – just as plague hits. A million leave, but only 100,000 return
  • Deaths: Poet Juan Manuel

Africa

  • Egypt: Plague devastation

Europe

  • General: Jews blamed and persecuted for causing black death, but Pope Clement VI declares Jews innocent of causing Black Death
    25,000,000 killed in Europe to 1666
  • Cyprus: Plague wipes out much of population
  • Czechoslovakia: Prague U founded by Charles IV
  • England: Edward III founds Order of the Garter
    Goncille and Caius College at Cambridge founded
    Plague
  • France: Plague
  • German States: "False Valdemar" gains rule of Brandenburg before being exposed as swindler two years later
    Plague
  • Ireland: Plague wipes out much of population
  • Italian States: Plague
  • Scotland: Plague



 
 
 
 
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