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The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Also called the early medieval pandemic , it began with the Plague of Justinian in 541 and continued until 750 or 767.
Plague of 698–701 (part of first plague pandemic) 698–701 Byzantine Empire, West Asia, Syria, Mesopotamia: Bubonic plague: Unknown [47] 735–737 Japanese smallpox epidemic: 735–737 Japan Smallpox: 2 million (approx. 1 ⁄ 3 of Japanese population) [15] [48] Plague of 746–747 (part of first plague pandemic) 746–747 Byzantine Empire ...
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]
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The Roman Plague of 590 was an epidemic of plague that affected the city of Rome in the year 590. [1] Probably bubonic plague , it was part of the first plague pandemic that followed the great plague of Justinian , which began in the 540s and may have killed more than 100 million Europeans [ 2 ] before spreading to other parts of the world [ 3 ...
Head coach of Florida Gators football team (1925–27), judge at Nuremberg Trials (1946–47), dean of Stetson University College of Law (1955–68) Leland C. Shepard Jr. United States Air Force Brigadier general , served in World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War
The Black Death was present in Italy between 1347 and 1348. [1] Sicily and the Italian Peninsula was the first area in then Catholic Western Europe to be reached by the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which reached the region by an Italian ship from the Crimea which landed in Messina in Sicily in October 1347. [1]
The First plague pandemic — the bubonic plague pandemics between the 6th and 8th centuries CE, in Medieval Asia, Africa, and Europe. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.