The effects are described by Zosimus as even worse than the earlier Antonine plague ( 166-80 ), which probably killed 15-30 % of the empire's inhabitants.

J. F. Gilliam believes that the Antonine plague probably caused more deaths than any other epidemic during the empire before the mid-3rd century.

The first one was the plague, which lasted from 541 to 543 and, by decimating the Empire's population, probably created a scarcity of labor and a rising of wages.

He probably perished in the plague that visited Haarlem in 1439-1440 ; his widow is mentioned in the latter year.

Baltic Old Prussian probably ceased to be spoken around the beginning of the 18th century due to many of its remaining speakers dying in the famines and bubonic plague epidemics harrowing the East Prussian countryside and towns from 1709 until 1711.

When he caught an epidemic disease ( probably plague ), he called the monks, strengthened their faith, and appointed his successor.

The earliest recorded invasion of the plague into Spanish territory was in Majorca in December 1347, probably through commercial ships.

His army was probably laden with booty from plunder ; a plague broke out in northern Italy ; food shortages may also be responsible for Attila ´ s withdrawal, as well as military actions of the Eastern Emperor Marcianus on the Danube frontier.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

One of the earls created in 1337, William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton, died in 1360, and the next year Henry of Grosmont, perhaps the greatest of Edward's captains, succumbed to what was probably plague.

* A " pestilence " that is probably bubonic plague strikes the British Isles and makes the country vulnerable to internal revolts.

Giorgione died, probably of the plague then raging, by October, 1510.

The devastation caused by the Black Death plague of the 1340s caused the loss of nearly half of the English population ; Bishop Bateman himself lost nearly 700 of his parish priests, and so his decision to found a college was probably centred around a need to rebuild the priesthood.

Sylvatic plague ( Yersinia pestis ) probably does not directly affect black-footed ferrets, but epidemics in prairie dog towns may completely destroy the black-footed ferrets ' prey base.

Indeed, body lice are important vectors of epidemic or louse-borne typhus, trench fever, louse-borne relapsing fever, and probably even classical bubonic plague.

This group of Nothelfer (" helpers in need ") originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic ( probably of bubonic plague ) that became known as the Black Death.

Rossi probably died either in the invasion of Austrian troops, who defeated the Gonzagas and destroyed the Jewish ghetto in Mantua, or in the subsequent plague which ravaged the area.

Procopius recorded that, at its peak, the plague was killing 10, 000 people in Constantinople daily, but the accuracy of this figure is in question and the true number will probably never be known.

By birth an Anglo-Saxon, he became archbishop in 655 and held the office for more than nine years until his death, probably from the plague.

They took on a broad range of roles, including poetry and song, plague prevention, and spiritual purification ; actually, it was probably because of their ritualistic duties that they became the caretakers of the Heike Monogatari ( 平家物語 ).

He was active on many committees but probably the most important of these contributions was the Royal Commission to enquire into the nature and causes and methods of prevention of the cattle plague.

From the peak, numbers probably underwent a steep decline by 270 due to plague and losses during multiple major barbarian invasions.

Most likely he died in 1557, probably a victim of the serious outbreak of plague in Béthune that year.

He died in 1361, probably of the plague, and was laid to rest in an impressive tomb in Lingfield church.

In the crucial story, "— And the Moon be Still as Bright ", it is revealed by the fourth exploratory expedition that the Martians have all but perished in a plague caused by germs brought by one of the previous expeditions.

* April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be brought forward so that students can leave the city ( on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow ).

Messina was most likely the harbour at which the Black Death entered Europe: the plague was brought by Genoese ships coming from Caffa in the Crimea.

There may have been interaction with Ireland at this time, perhaps partly brought about by a very severe plague in Ireland in 548 / 9, only a few years after the extreme weather events of 535 – 536.

Oedipus became nervous as he realized that he may have murdered Laius and so brought about the plague.

When it was brought to Numa he declared that Egeria had enlightened him that this was a token of safeguard from Jupiter, for which he organized due measures of recognition, thus bringing the plague at an immediate end.

The 14th century also brought the plague and a host of reasons for retaining the 5th-century ( pre-Visigothic ) walls.

As the Europeans came closer in contact with the natives, along the coast of Cape Cod to Nova Scotia, they brought along with them diseases, such as small pox, plague, measles and other illnesses that depopulated entire villages, killing between 55 to 95 percent of coastal people.

In 1625 Charles I brought his court to Richmond Palace to escape the plague in London and turned the area on the hill above Richmond into a park for red and fallow deer.

Almost continuously the Campine villages was plundered and besieged ; foreign troops caused severe havoc, and also brought with them diseases such as the Bubonic plague.

The capital of the Electoral Palatinate, Heidelberg, was suffering from an outbreak of Bubonic plague at this time, so Frederick spent his first two years in the Upper Palatinate before being brought to Heidelberg in 1598.

However, some towns began to notice that sometimes Flagellants brought plague to towns where it had not yet surfaced.

A plague of 1616-1618 and again in the early 1630s, perhaps smallpox brought from abroad, had apparently devastated the once populous Indian tribes.

The defection of Andrea Doria and an outbreak of the plague in the French camp brought on a fresh disaster.

The plague had been brought to the village in a flea-infested bundle of cloth that was delivered to tailor George Viccars from London.

Any plague is supposed to be brought on by the Mindye or some of its little ones.

Although the gains of economic liberalization have been substantial for the traveling public and airline executives, fundamental problems brought on by deregulation continue to plague the industry and its workers.

Or the plague ”, and she states that Harry and Edna have brought the plague with them.

The term murrain is also used in some Bible translations relating to the fifth plague brought upon Egypt.

* 293 BC: After yet another plague, the books were consulted, with the prescription being ' that Aesculapius must be brought to Rome from Epidaurus '; however, the Senate, being preoccupied with the Samnite wars, took no steps beyond performing one day of public prayers to Aesculapius.

Isham has been told by his father, scientist Jacob Stone, that Carlson is a madman who brought the world to its current state by releasing a " hyperosmic plague ": a virus that increases the sensitivity of the human sense of smell by many hundred times.

The bronze-age god, Smintheus, who both protected against and brought about plague, was worshipped in later Bronze-age Tenedos.

A great plague hast thou brought upon us, transgression and sin for all our generations.