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1346–1353 spread of the Black Death in Europe map. The Black Death was present in France between 1347 and 1352. [1] The bubonic plague pandemic, known as the Black Death, reached France by ship from Italy to Marseille in November 1347. [2] From Marseille, the Black Death spread first through Southern France, and then continued outwards to ...
The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353. ... near Marseille in southern France, ...
The Great Plague of Marseille, also known as the Plague of Provence, was the last major outbreak of bubonic plague in Western Europe. Arriving in Marseille , France , in 1720, the disease killed over 100,000 people: 50,000 in the city during the next two years and another 50,000 to the north in surrounding provinces and towns.
1663–1664 Amsterdam plague epidemic (part of the second plague pandemic) 1663–1664 Amsterdam, Netherlands Bubonic plague: 24,148 [79] Great Plague of London (part of the second plague pandemic) 1665–1666 England Bubonic plague: 100,000 [80] [81] 1668 France plague (part of the second plague pandemic) 1668 France: Bubonic plague: 40,000 [82]
The 1951 Pont-Saint-Esprit mass poisoning, known in French as Le Pain Maudit, took place on 15 August 1951, in the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit in Southern France.More than 250 people were involved, including 50 people interned in asylums, and there were seven deaths.
The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world. [55] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
Jewish community of Toulon killed as part of the Black Death Jewish persecutions: Jacquerie: June 1358: Northern France 20,000 Peasants, aristocracy and nobility Peasant Jacquerie rebels massacre hundreds of noblemen, women and children. Some 20,000 peasants are in turn exterminated by nobles Siege of Limoges: 19 September 1370: Limoges: 200–400
The Black Death reached Switzerland south from Ticino in Italy, and West to Rhone and Geneva from Avignon in France. According to tradition, Mühldorf am Inn was the first German language city to be affected by the Black Death, on 29 June 1348. [1]