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1383-09-02-Florence + (Letter from [[Coluccio Salutati]]; he writes that the [[Plague]] is almost gone and [[mortality]] is decreasing)
1349-09-00-Carpi + (Letter from [[Francesco Petrarca]] to his friend Ludwig van Kempen in which he mentions the [[plague]] breaking out again in [[Carpi]])
1349-06-00-Italy + (Letter from [[Francesco Petrarca]] to his friend Ludwig van Kempen in [[Avignon]] about the [[plague]] in [[Italy]] in 1348 (mentioning an [[Earthquake]])
1348-04-28-Dubrovnik + (Letter from the Venetian Senate to the city government of Ragusa ([[Dubrovnik]]) condoling for the many deaths caused by [[plague]].)
1383-08-07-Florence + (Letter of [[Coluccio Salutati]] criticising the panic over the [[plague]] in [[Florence]])
1400-08-06-Pistoia + (Letter of [[Coluccio Salutati]], in which he mentioned a severe [[plague]] in [[Pistoia]] and the whole [[Tuscany]])
1495-00-00-Vadstena + (Letter of the brother Torsten Johansson of [[Vadstena]] monastery to an unnamed “frater amantissime paterque et domine religiose” reporting about [[plague]] deaths in Vadstena)
1348-00-00-Paris2 + (List of noble victims of the [[Black Death]] across the [[Holy Roman Empire]] and [[France]]; impact on [[Paris]] and the Hundred Years [[War]] in [[Gascony]].)
1475-00-00-Bohemia + (Locusts destroyed many [[crops]] in [[Bohemia]], [[Silesia]], [[Moravia]] and [[Lusatia]] and caused a mortal disease among the pigs.)
1411-05-00-Florence + (Low [[mortality]] in [[Florence]], but many citizens flee anyway.)
1384-08-10-Pisa + (Many [[procession]]s with [[relics]] in [[Pisa]] in August because of the [[plague]] and it leads to many miracles like healings.)
1280-00-00-Bologna + (Many apocalyptic events in [[Bologna]], like on 25. [[January]] an [[earthquake]] and [[solar eclipse]]; Two months of rain, floods and consequently a [[famine]] and [[Epidemics|Epidemic]] with many deaths)
1316-00-00-Romagna + (Many deaths caused by [[epidemic]], which rages mainly in [[Romagna]])
1255-00-00-Foggia + (Many deaths in the army of the Pope in [[Foggia]], but only few in the besieging army.)
1267-00-00-Thuringia + (Many diseases and [[plague]] among people and animals in [[Thuringia]] and the surrounding area)
1357-00-00-Zwiefalten + (Many people die of a [[plague]] in the monastery of [[Zwiefalten]])
1395-07-20-Gelnhausen + (Many people died in [[Gelnhausen]] in the summer of 1395. The dying started on the day of St Margaret (the Virgin, July 20th).)
1387-01-00-Florence + (Many people fell ill with a [[cold]] following a period of warm and humid [[weather]] from [[November]] to [[January]]. Many people of all ages and sexes died, but more older people than younger ones.)
1468-09-00-Valencia + (Many people, including Bishop Cascant, died of a [[fever]] in [[Valencia]].)
1374-03-16-Alexandria + (Many people, mainly children, died of [[plague]] … Many people, mainly children, died of [[plague]] (ṭāʿūn, fanāʾ, wabāʾ) in [[Alexandria]] from Shawwāl 775 H (March 16 to April 14, [[1374]]) to Rabīʿ I 776 H (August 10, [[1374]] to September 8, 1374). Up to 200 people died per day. In Shawwāl, 7,000 people perished within three days. In 775 H (1373), the Nile had failed to reach the necessary gauge (wafāʾ) during the summer flood, and many fields in [[Egypt]] could not be cultivated. Prices for grain and other foodstuffs rose in Egypt. Prices remained high also during the following year (776 H: June 13, 1374 to June 1, 1375) despite a sufficient Nile flood and the availability of grain. People became impoverished and died of hunger due to the rise in prices while grain merchants (khazzān) made huge profits. Finally, people revolted against inflation and famine. Plague came on top of famine. In Alexandria, 17,000 people reportedly died of plague, 12,000 of whom were male and female children. [...] whom were male and female children. [...])
1374-00-00-Florence + (Many relatives from the author died of the [[plague]] in [[Florence]] and [[Arezzo]]. He was in the meantime in [[Bologna]].)
1230-1231-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia? + (Mass deaths of people caused by starvation)
1347-00-00-Bologna 005 + (Massive [[price increase]], many deaths and [[epidemics]] in [[Bologna]])
1224-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (Massive death of birds due to carbon monoxide poisoning caused by forest and peat fires.)
1382-00-00-Erfurt + (Memorial [[inscription]] on the south facade of [[Erfurt]]s Peterskirche.)

1307-00-00-Bologna + (Miracle cure through S. Petronio)

1490-00-00-Erfurt + (Misdated arrival of [[syphilis]] to Europe in [[1490]] predating the presumed arrival to Europe in [[1493]] in the context of the Columbian Exchange; the new disease is interpreted as an apolcalyptic sign.)
1276-07-00-Italy + (Months of continuous rain destroys [[crops]], [[famine]] feared; livestock dies, [[famine]], [[disease]] and deaths in [[Rome]] and throughout [[Italy]])
1309-00-00-Iceland 006 + (Mortal [[plague]] in northern [[Iceland]] in [[1309]])
1310-00-00-Iceland 005 + (Mortal [[plague]] in western and southern [[Iceland]] in [[1310]] and [[smallpox]])
1305-00-00-Denmark + (Mortality in [[Denmark]] in the year [[1305]].)
1309-00-00-Iceland 002 + (Mortality in [[Iceland]] in [[spring]] [[1309]])
1347-10-00-Messina3 + (Most plague refugees from [[Messina]] fail to enter [[Catania]] and spread the [[Black Death]] to [[Siracusa]], [[Agrigento]] and [[Trapani]].)
1348-04-00-Crimea + (News about the [[Black Death]] … News about the [[Black Death]] (wabāʾ) in other countries kept reaching [[Damascus]] in early 749 H (the year starts in April 1348): Terrible things were told about [[Crimea]] where a great number of people had reportedly died. Afterwards the plague, it was told, was transmitted to the [[lands of the Franks]]. The majority of the inhabitants of [[Cyprus]] were said to have died from the [[plague]].plague]].)
1356-00-00-Kassel + (No longer extant [[inscription]] from inside a parish church in [[Kassel]], referring to the [[Pestis secunda]].)
1360-00-00-Sweden + (Note by Nils Birgersson, dean in Uppsala c. 1390–1420 on the [[Black Death|black death]] in [[Sweden]] in [[1360]]. Due to the high [[mortality]] among children, it was called [[barnadöden]] ''(= children’s death)'')
1350-00-00-Uppsala + (Note by Nils Birgersson, dean in Uppsala c. 1390–1420 on the plague raging in [[Uppland]] in [[1350]] (MCCL))
1350-00-00-Uppland + (Note by [[Nils Birgersson]], dean in [[Uppsala]] c. 1390–1420. High [[mortality]] in the Swedish region of [[Uppland]] in [[1350]]. Five sixths of the population died)
1348-08-07-Damascus + (On August 7, [[1348]] … On August 7, [[1348]] the number of [[plague]] deaths in [[Damascus]] and its surroundings reached almost 300. Around September 10 (in mid-Jumādā II 749 H), the number of deceased further increased; both elite and common people died; the exact death toll remained unknown. On August 18, the governor of [[Syria]] (nāʾib al-salṭana) ordered all [[dog]]s in the city to be killed. On September 27 [or, according to one manuscript: October 3], 42 deceased were prayed for at the Umayyad Mosque alone; the mosque didn’t provide enough space for all the corpses, so some had to be placed outside the Sirr Gate.me had to be placed outside the Sirr Gate.)
1349-01-27-Damascus + (On January 27, [[1349]], the [[Friday]] preacher Tāj al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Qazwīnī died of [[plague]] in [[Damascus]] after two days of illness. The members of his household were infected, too; his brother Ṣadr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Karīm died soon afterwards.)
1348-10-00-Damascus + (On October 7, [[1348]] … On October 7, [[1348]] the number of people who had died of [[plague]] and were prayed for at the Umayyad Mosque in [[Damascus]] reached 150 or more; not included were inhabitants of the outskirts of the city and members of the protected religious minorities (ahl al-dhimma) whose bodies were not brought to the Umayyad Mosque. It was said that on many days, casualties in the outskirts of [[Damascus]] (ḥawāḍir al-balad) reached more than 1,000. On October 7, a dust storm reached [[Damascus]]; people prayed to God and ask for this to be the end of the [[plague]]; things only got worse afterwards, though. On Miʿrāj Night (October 21), not as many people as usual gathered in the Umayyad Mosque because so many people had died of [[plague]] and many more were occupied caring for the sick and the deceased. In the beginning of Shaʿbān 749 H (the month began on October 25), many people were infected with [[plague]] ([[fanāʾ]]), and often there would be a bad smell in the city.en there would be a bad smell in the city.)
1345-00-00-Venice + (Origin of the [[Black Death]] and ravages in [[Venice]])
1348-00-00-Avignon + (Origins of the [[Black Death]] beyond the sea, its way via [[Naples]] to [[Montpellier]] and [[Marseille]], and its impact in [[Avignon]].)
1362-00-00-Bologna 002 + (Outbreak of [[Pestis secunda]] in [[Bologna]].)
1393-00-00-Salzburg + (Outbreak of [[Plague]] in [[Salzburg]].)
1375-00-00-Avignon + (Outbreak of [[fever]] in [[Avignon]] in connection with [[dearth]].)
1439-00-00-Zwiefalten + (Outbreak of [[plague]] all over [[Swabia]] and, probably, also in the monastery of [[Zwiefalten]])
1399-00-00-Zwiefalten + (Outbreak of [[plague]] all over the world and, probably, also in the monastery of [[Zwiefalten]].)
1419-00-00-Zwiefalten + (Outbreak of [[plague]] all over the world and, probably, also in the monastery of [[Zwiefalten]].)
1373-00-00-Mainz + (Outbreak of [[plague]] along the [[Rhine]] and other parts of [[Germany]], in [[Mainz]] 3000 people die.)
1381-01-13-Mainz + (Outbreak of [[plague]] along the [[Rhine]], accompanied by mild weather.)