The Black Death: A Timeline of the Gruesome Pandemic

1346 
The strain of Y. pestis emerges in Mongolia, according to John Kelly's account in The Great Mortality

May, 1347 
Both sides in the siege are decimated and survivors in Caffa escape by sea, leaving behind streets covered with corpses being fed on by feral animals. 

October, 1347
Another Caffan ship docks in Sicily, the crew barely alive. Here the plague kills half the population and moves to Messina. 

November, 1347
The plague arrives in France, brought by another of the Caffa ships docking in Marseille. It spreads quickly through the county. 

January, 1348
A different plague strain enters Europe through Genoa, brought by another Caffan ship that docks there. The Genoans attack the ship and drive it away, but they are still infected. 

April, 1348
The plague awakes an anti-Semitic rage around Europe, causing repeated massacres of Jewish communities, with the first one taking place in Provence, where 40 Jews were murdered. 

June, 1348
The plague enters England through the port of Melcombe Regis, in Dorset. As it spreads through the town, some escape by fleeing inland, inadvertently spreading it further. 

Summer, 1348
The plague hits Marseille, Paris and Normandy, and then the strain splits, with on strain moving onto the now-Belgian city of Tournai to the east and the other passing though Calais. 

October, 1348
As the devastation grows, Londoners flee to the countryside to find food. 

February, 1349
One of the worst massacres of Jews during the Black Death takes place on Valentine's Day in Strasbourg, with 2,000 Jewish people burned alive. 

April, 1349
The plague hits Wales, brought by people fleeing from Southern England, and eventually kills 100,000 people there. 

July, 1349
An England ship brings the Black Death to Norway when it runs aground in Bergen. 

March, 1350
Scotland, having so far avoided the plague, hopes to take advantage of English weakness by amassing an army and planing and invasion. 

1351
The plague's spread significantly begins to peter out, possibly thanks to quarantine efforts, after causing the deaths of anywhere between 25 to 50 million people, and leading to the massacres of 210 Jewish communities. 

1353
With the Black Death considered safely behind them, the people of Europe face a changed society

The black death arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. It spread from person to person and killed 25-30 million people. 
 

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