The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350.

Although Cairo avoided Europe's stagnation during the Late Middle Ages, it could not escape the Black Death, which struck the city more than fifty times between 1348 and 1517.

Of a population estimated at 94, 000 before the Black Death of 1348, about 25, 000 are said to have been supported by the city's wool industry: in 1345 Florence was the scene of an attempted strike by wool combers ( ciompi ), who in 1378 rose up in a brief revolt against oligarchic rule in the Revolt of the Ciompi.

He is reported to have died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the Dominicans in which he was

The city was hurt further, in 1348, by the Black Death, which killed some three-quarters of the city's population, later represented in the Decameron.

The Black Death, an epidemic of bubonic plague that spread over the whole of Europe, arrived in England in 1348 and killed as much as a third to half the population.

* 1348 – Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting the Jews accused to have caused the Black Death.

These evoked uneasy memories of the mass processions of wandering flagellants of the Black Death period, 1348 — 1349.

Clement is most notable as the Pope who reigned during the time of the Black Death ( 1348 – 1350 ), during which he granted remission of sins to all that died of the plague.

Between 1348 and 1359 the Black Death wiped out an estimated 30 % of Europe's population, as well as a significant percentage of Asia's population.

Venice took the lead in measures to check the spread of plague, having appointed three guardians of the public health in the first years of the Black Death ( 1348 ).

The Black Death devastated Venice in 1348 and once again between 1575 and 1577.

Ockham died ( prior to the outbreak of the plague, or Black Death ) either on 10 April 1347 or ( more likely ) on 9 April 1348 in the Franciscan convent at Munich in Bavaria.

The persistently cold, wet weather caused great hardship, was primarily responsible for the Great Famine of 1315 – 1317, and strongly contributed to the weakened immunity and malnutrition leading up to the Black Death ( 1348 – 1350 ).

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The Black Death appeared at Avignon in 1348 ; killing almost two-thirds of the city's population.

In 1348, the Black Death struck England with full force, killing a third or more of the country's population.

Three of her children died of the Black Death in 1348.

The Black Death hit Canterbury in 1348.

After the " classical " period around the turn of the 13th century and a mid-century resurgence, the art of the troubadours declined in the 14th century and eventually died out around the time of the Black Death ( 1348 ).

However the Black Death struck the town in 1348, reducing the population to about 300.

In 1348, a new woe struck France: the Black Death, which in the next few years killed one-third of the population, including Queen Joan.

The city went into a deep decline through the plague of the Black Death in 1348.

Principally, by Giovanni Boccaccio ( 1313 – 1375 ), author of The Decameron ( 1353 )— one hundred novelle told by ten people, seven women and three men, fleeing the Black Death by escaping from Florence to the Fiesole hills, in 1348 ; and by the French Queen, Marguerite de Navarre ( 1492 – 1549 ), Marguerite de Valois, et.

In 1348, the city was hit by the Black Death – a lethal bubonic plague that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century.

The bubonic plague did not strike Europe until 1348, so the likelihood of his contracting and ultimately dying from the bubonic plague was very slim.

According to Heinsohn and Steiger's theory, the state persecuted the midwives as witches in an effort to repopulate the European continent which had suffered severe loss of manpower as a result of the bubonic plague which had swept over the continent in waves, starting in 1348.

Johannes de Muris was among the team " of three who drew up a treatise explaining the plague of 1348 by the conjunction of Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars in 1341 " Clement VI's physicians advised him that surrounding himself with torches would block the plague.

Clement issued two papal bulls in 1348 ( 6 July and 26 September ) which condemned the violence and said those who blamed the plague on the Jews had been " seduced by that liar, the Devil.

Until the pogrom on 1348 during an outbreak of the plague, there was a small Jewish community in Solothurn.

Valencia was felled by this plague in May 1348, enabling Peter to escape amid the confusion.

In 1348, Walter de Manny rented of land in Spital Croft, north of Long Lane, from the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew's Hospital for a graveyard and plague pit for victims of the Black Death.

Works, however, were halted during the plague of 1348.

Like his brother, he is believed to have died of bubonic plague in 1348.

In 1348 the black death afflicted Hythe, and in 1400 the plague further reduced the population.

In 1346, he was appointed Papal Ambassador to Constantinople but, his mission having ended in failure, he returned to Gerace where he died in 1348, apparently a victim of the bubonic plague.

A plague and an earthquake struck the city, in 1348 and 1456.

In 1348, Walter de Manny rented of land in Spital Croft, north of Long Lane, from the Master and Brethren of St. Bartholomew's Hospital for a graveyard and plague pit for victims of the Black Death.

Septicemic plague was the least common of the three plague varieties that occurred during the Black Death from 1348 to 1350 ( the other two being bubonic plague and pneumonic plague ).

It was founded by Duke Rudolph IV in 1365 and is the oldest university in the German-speaking world after Charles University in Prague which was founded in 1348.

The Hiberno-Norman presence in Kilkenny was deeply shaken by the Black Death, which arrived in 1348.

Rapid progress on a radical expansion of the cathedral which would have involved replacing the existing dome with a larger one was halted not long after the city was struck with an outbreak of the Black Death in 1348.

In 1348, Kō no Moronao attacked Yoshino, and the Emperor left for modern-day Nishiyoshino Village in Yoshino District, Nara Prefecture, which was then the Yamato Province.

Consequently, Pope John VIII ( 872 – 882 ) fortified the basilica, the monastery, and the dwellings of the peasantry, forming the town of Joannispolis ( Italian: Giovannipoli ) which existed until 1348, when an earthquake totally destroyed it.

In 1348 the Genoese built a new tower nearby which they called Christea Turris ( Tower of Christ ), now called Galata Tower.

It was praised as early as 1348 in the writings of Boccaccio ; in the Decameron, he invents ‘ a mountain, all of grated Parmesan cheese ’, on which ‘ dwell folk that do nought else but make macaroni and ravioli, and boil them in capon's broth, and then throw them down to be scrambled for ; and hard by flows a rivulet of Vernaccia, the best that ever was drunk, and never a drop of water therein .’

This incident occurred just after a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 777 flight 1348 experienced turbulence which landed safely in Tokyo's Haneda Airport.

The Birmingham market was the earliest to be established on the Birmingham Plateau – an area which accounted for most of the doubling or tripling of the population of Warwickshire between 1086 and 1348 as population growth nationally encouraged the settlement and cultivation of previously marginal land.

This tradition is often cited to date back at least to 1348, following the village ’ s escape from the Black Death, which the villagers attributed to the purity of the water in its wells.

The earliest record of sea walls is from 1271, and in 1348 there were problems with one of the marshes, which was flooding every day, indicating that it was below the level of normal tides.

There were major sheep and cattle murrains in Europe during the 14th century, which combined with the Little Ice Age resulted in widespread famine during the Great Famine of 1315-1317, weakening the population of Europe before the onset of the Black Death in 1348.

At this time the population was larger than Newbury's but declined as a result of the Black Death which decimated the area in 1348.

Farming seems to have prospered for the next three centuries but was severely hit by the Black Death which in 1348 arrived in Dorset and quickly spread through Somerset, causing widespread mortality, perhaps as much as 50 % in places.

On June 12, 1348, German king and later emperor Karl IV granted the Duchy of Pomerania as a whole and the Rugian principality as a fief to the dukes of both Pomerania-Stettin and Pomerania-Wolgast, erasing Brandenburg's claims, which however was not accepted by Brandenburg until 1529.

It is thought that the town grew up around St Mary's Augustinian Friary ( popularly referred to as " the Abbey "), which was founded in 1348, according to local tradition.