During the Black Death in Europe, people believed that carrying a ball of ambergris could help prevent them from getting the plague.

Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

Prior to the bubonic plague epidemic known as the Black Death, Mongol and Turkish armies were reported to have catapulted disease-laden corpses into besieged cities.

The weaponized threat comes mainly in the form of pneumonic plague ( infection by inhalation ) It was the disease that caused the Black Death in Medieval Europe.

Illustration of the Black Death from the Toggenburg Bible ( 1411 )

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

Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, recent analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe indicates that the pathogen responsible was the Yersinia pestis bacterium, which causes the Bubonic plague, although these were different, previously unknown ancestral variants of those identified in the 20th century.

The Black Death is thought to have started in China or central Asia, before spreading west.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.

After 750, major epidemic diseases did not appear again in Europe until the Black Death of the 14th century.

The Black Death originated in or near China and spread by way of the Silk Road or by ship.

The 14th-century eruption of the Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe's population, irrevocably changing the social structure.

The work was translated into English the following year, and with the cholera epidemic happening at that time, " The Black Death in the 14th century " gained widespread attention and the terms Schwarzer Tod and Black Death became more widely used in the German-and English-speaking worlds, respectively.

Whether or not this hypothesis is accurate, it is clear that several existing conditions such as war, famine, and weather contributed to the severity of the Black Death.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death.

Other names have been used to describe this disease, such as " The Black Plague " and " The Black Death "; the latter is now used primarily by scholars to describe the second, and most devastating, pandemic of the disease.

Unification or Death (), unofficially known as the Black Hand ( Црна рука, Crna ruka ), was a secret military society formed by members of the Serbian army in the Kingdom of Serbia, which was founded on 6 September 1901.

The Black Hand was formed when ten men met on 9 May 1911 to form Ujedinjenje ili Smrt ( Unification or Death ), better known as the Black Hand.

Even Black's old crowbait began to snort, and from the house Black yelled, `` Jess!!

On 8 August 1356, the eldest son of King Edward III of England, crowned as the Prince of Wales but now known as Edward, the Black Prince, began a great chevauchée, conducting many scorched earth raids northwards from the English base in Aquitaine, in an effort to bolster his troops in central France, as well as to raid and ravage the countryside.

He also began teaching at the Harlem Arts Workshop, founded by Augusta Savage in the basement of what is now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

After the United States Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry's Black Ships forcibly opened Japan to foreign trade and the shogunate proved incapable of hindering the " barbarian " interlopers, the Emperor Kōmei began to assert himself politically.

It happened within the centuries-long time period of the Second Pandemic, an extended period of intermittent bubonic plague epidemics which began in Europe in 1347, the first year of the " Black Death " and lasted until 1750.

In 1801 he began work at Black Callerton colliery as a ' brakesman ', controlling the winding gear of the pit.

In the mid-9th century, they began to venture along the waterways from the eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas.

In 1956, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1935 novel Green Hills of Africa, she began an ambitious film project in Africa drawn from another novel called Schwarze Fracht ( Black Freight ).

The father of Methodism in Canada was William Black who began preaching in settlements along the Petitcodiac River of New Brunswick in 1781.

Once completed, a wave of assassinations of suspected Black September operatives began across Europe.

In August 2012, Der Spiegel reported that following the massacre, Germany began secret meetings with Black September, at the behest of the West German government, due to the fear that Black September would carry out other terrorist attacks in Germany.

According to Klein, in response to an economic crash in the 1980s ( Latin American debt crisis, Black Monday ( 1987 ), Savings and loan crisis Japanese asset price bubble ), corporations began to seriously rethink their approach to marketing, and began to target the youth demographic, as opposed to the baby boomers, who had previously been considered a much more valuable segment.

With the development of a more conservative Black middle class, however, the party began to steadily lose support, until it collapsed after a rout in the 1979 elections.

The basis for the Freetown Colony began in 1791, when Thomas Peters, an African American who had served in the Black Pioneers, travelled to England to report the grievances of the black population.

Even after the Banda Black Rio in the 1980s, British disc jockeys began to play the group's work.

It was the first Stranglers album to feature acoustic guitars, and it was on this album that Jet Black began to use electronic drum kits.

In the nineties, a new generation of bands influenced by The Band began to gain popularity, including Counting Crows and The Black Crowes.

Two weeks after the announcement regarding Hanna, rumors began circulating that The Chemical Brothers had recorded part of the score for the movie Black Swan, after a post in Ed Simon's Twitter account.

Nevertheless, the Court's balance began to shift within months when Justice van Devanter retired and was replaced by Senator Hugo Black.

This episode is considered one of the last outbreaks of the centuries-long pandemic of plague that began with the Black Death.

Then-President of the IBRD Eugene R. Black, Sr. began circulating the notion of an International Development Association.

According to the Professor and Historian Oswald Balzer, shortly before began the preparations to the First Coalition of Piast Dukes formed by Leszek II the Black, Henry IV, Przemysł II and Henry III of Głogow, which had the intention to make the unification of Poland.