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1404-00-00-Iceland + (The second deadly winter. Three times all servants of Skálholt died. Three priests died there and most of the clerics. Two priests survived, the church priest Þorfinnur and the priest Þórarinn Andrésson, who was chaplain to Bishop Vilchin at the time.)
1451-00-00-Sweden + (The second maiden foresaw truthfully that there was such a great pestilence in Stockolm that over 9,000 [people] died. Many towns were deserted all over the country.)
1189-06-00-Cologne + (The summer ([[1189]]) has been very hot until August, and a mortality among men and cattle occured meanwhile.)
1440-00-00-Sweden 001 + (The virgin answered so again therefore sha … The virgin answered so again therefore shall the kingdom receive three plagues – great wars shall be found at all ends, and the least of these shall be everywhere – from hunger they will suffer misery so that many will have neither beer nor bread - and countless will be so miserable that from hunger they will starve to death - the third, pestilence, will pass by, leaving many farms desolate.will pass by, leaving many farms desolate.)
1433-08-00-Paris + (The weather was benevolent in August, but the mortality due to 'bosse' or 'vérole plate' was important in that time, especially among children.)
1347-11-00-Italy1 + (The whole world, both Christians and infid … The whole world, both Christians and infidels, were infected, and the sick were abandoned by servants, doctors, notaries, priests, and friars, so that they were neither served nor cared for, nor could they make a will, nor die confessed or absolved, the miserable plague victims. The reason for this was that as soon as they approached the sick, they fell into such unfortunate pestilence and died almost immediately, so that many remained unburied, and one and the other abandoned each other, and it was not known that a father had children, nor a wife a husband, nor a friend a companion. And although many rich people died, the heirs were not then ready to seek their possessions; rather, all wealth was held without value, and it was no longer known that the avaricious held gold dearer than life. It was horrible to see that humans, abandoning humans, hatreds, envies, lusts, possessions, and earthly love, all turned to fear of a horrible and frightening deatho fear of a horrible and frightening death)
1190-01-00-Cologne + (The winter ([[1190]]) has been dry and cold. The mortality has been enormous.)
1367-00-00-Bologna + (The year 1367 this year there was a wind of livanto throughout the country that made almost all the people sick and many old men died)
1439-00-00-Basel + (The year 1439 occured a great dearth in Ba … The year 1439 occured a great dearth in Basel. A pestilence broke out simultaneously and more than 8000 persons, adults and children, died dramatically. Among the canons of the cathedral died the treasurer master Kaspar, the prior master Turicensis, master Michael de Reno, prior of Sanctus Ursinus and 20 other canons.or of Sanctus Ursinus and 20 other canons.)
1463-07-00-Basel + (The year [[1463]] began a pestilence in Basel after Margeret's Day (15 July). It broke out first, without being severe in Klein-Basel, then it spread in the city.)
1259-04-00-Paris + (The year after, in April, there was a great mortality, especially in Paris. People died very rapidly.)
1350-00-00-Constance + (The year began with extreme weather and la … The year began with extreme weather and lasted until the feast of St Andrew (30 November), after which there was abundant rainfall until the feast of St Nicholas (6 December), but then cold weather prevailed until the Purification (2 February 1351). From then on, the epidemic or mortality of the people, which raged for two years and was so widespread that about a fifth of the people died, in some places even a sixth. people died, in some places even a sixth.)
1450-00-00-Rome + (The year of our Lord 1450. In Rome there was jubilee year and a great pestilence.)
1388-03-00-Liège + (The year of the Lord [[1388]], in [[March]] several people had ulcers on their bodies, like others have had [[rheumatism]] last year.)
1402-00-00-Iceland + (Then Hval-Einar Herjólfsson sailed out wit … Then Hval-Einar Herjólfsson sailed out with the ship he had himself. A sudden and severe disease broke out there, so that people lay dead within three nights until three masses were sung with the appropriate prayers and burning candles. Likewise, fasting without water was vowed at Candlemas and fasting with water always before Christmas. Then, most could make their confessions before they died. In autumn, the plague raged in the south of the country with so much terror that villages died out almost entirely. And people were not able to safe themselves in many places. The first priest to die in the autumn was Father Áli Svarthöfðason, followed by Brother Grímur, parish priest in Skálholt, and then one resident priest after the other, the counsellor, Father Höskuldur, exactly on Christmas Day. Thus the episcopate (Skálholtsstaður) was emptied of learned men and lay people, save for the bishop himself and two lay people.for the bishop himself and two lay people.)
1465-08-11-Stockholm 002 + (Then I fell ill with the plague - and no one could advise me to cure it - I grieved and wept that I had done wrong - and promised to do better - With that death took me away - and I commanded my spirit into God's hands - I ended my life in Stocholm)
1348-09-00-Alexandria + (Then I travelled to al-Maḥalla al-Kabīra, … Then I travelled to al-Maḥalla al-Kabīra, then to Naḥrarīya, then to Abyār, then to Damanhūr, and then to Alexandria. I found the plague had abated after the number of deaths had risen to a thousand and eighty a day. Then I went to Cairo and was told that during the plague the number of deaths there had risen to twenty-one thousand a day. I found that all the shaikhs I had known were dead. May God Most High have mercy upon them!d. May God Most High have mercy upon them!)
1347-00-00-Iceland 003 + (Then [there was] a great smallpox [plague] all around Iceland. And many people died.)
1258-11-00-Cairo + (Then there happened a great epidemic at Ca … Then there happened a great epidemic at Cairo, from which hardly any one escaped; it began on Thursday, the 24th of Shawwál, and Behá ed dín was one of those attacked by it. He survived a few days, and then expired a little before sunset onn Sunday the 4th of Dhu’l Ka’deh in the same year (Nov AD [[1258]]) and was buried the next after midday prayers […]I could not make it for [Bahaˉʾ al-Dīn’s funeral] prayer as I was engaged myself with the disease. When I had recovered from the disease, I proceeded to his grave for visitation and read a part of the Qur’aˉn for himion and read a part of the Qur’aˉn for him)
1341-00-00-Iceland 004 + (Then there was a fire in Mount Hekla with so much sand falling that livestock died in the spring, and sheep and cattle died mostly around Rangárvellir and nearly destroyed five districts. In other places, cattle died from the sand.)
1348-08-00-Gaza + (Then we went to Ghazza and found most of it deserted because of the numbers that had died during the plague. The qāḍī told me that only a quarter of the eighty notaries there were left and that the number of deaths had risen to eleven hundred a day.)
1340-00-00-Tuscany + (Then, in that year, there was a great mortality of livestock and also of humans, and in the regions of Tuscany and Florence, more than three thousand people passed away.)
1406-00-00-Pleskov + (There [[1406]] … There [[1406]]/[[1407]] was then a plague with swelling/blister/cerebral oedema<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> in Pskov.;/sup> in Pskov.)
1406-00-00-Pleskov 001 + (There [[1406]] … There [[1406]]/[[1407]] was then a plague with swelling/blister/cerebral oedema<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> in Pskov.;/sup> in Pskov.)
1348-07-05-Venezia + (There are many people, almost innumerable, … There are many people, almost innumerable, who daily come to the courts, both their own and those of examiners, and due to this circumstance arising from the mortality of the present time [...] And because many notaries and countless others who have received requests for wills and various other documents are deceased [...] And because our offices suffered greatly due to the absence of notaries and scribes and also other officials of ours, who are outside Venice and do not care to come, it is advised that with this part published, all members of chanceries, notaries, and clerks of all our offices, both clerics and laymen who left two months ago, are bound to have come to Venice within eight days [...] under the penalty of losing the offices they held [...] Because our city suffers greatly in the matter of the sick due to the absence of physicians who left Venice...e absence of physicians who left Venice...)

1313-00-00-Iceland 004 + (There was a big famine.)

1232-00-00-Trient + (There was a cruel plague.)
1341-00-00-Iceland 001 + (There was a fire in Mount Hekla with a bad harvest and ash fall and many towns were laid waste. Such a great darkness during the day as during the nights in winter.)
1362-10-00-Middle East + (There was a great [[mortality]] in almost all of the world.)
1366-00-00-Moscow + (There was a great epidemic among people in … There was a great epidemic among people in the city of Moscow and all its territory<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>, similar was earlier in Pereyaslavlj.;/sup>, similar was earlier in Pereyaslavlj.)
1316-00-00-Würzburg + (There was a great famine and a great mortality of cattle and pigs .)
1320-00-00-Iceland + (There was a great famine during the winter and the weather was very harsh, and there was sea ice.)
1227-00-00-Bologna + (There was a great famine in the city of Bologna and in different areas and wheat was 3 pound and fabarum 48 Solidi, speltae 34 Solidi and melegae 33 Solidi. [...] Because of a great mortality a lot of poor people died.)
1464-06-09-Stralsund 001 + (There was a great mortalitas in the year 1464 from the Feast of Corpus Christi untill S. Michael, and in this time died around 5000 people.)
1413-00-00-Bohemia + (There was a great mortality [in Bohemia] after the feast of St. John.)
1225-00-00-Europa + (There was a great mortality among cattle, such that where it occurred, only a few cattle remained.)
1310-00-00-Mattsee + (There was a great pestilence of humans as well as of cattle.)
1335-00-00-Mattsee + (There was a great pestilence of humans.)
1350-00-00-Sweden 001 + (There was a great pestilence over the whole world.)
1364-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia MLSKXVv + (There was a great plague in [[Nizhny Novgorod]] … There was a great plague in [[Nizhny Novgorod]], people were coughing/spitting blood, and others suffered from ulceration/swelling of the glands, and soon they fell ill, barely two or three days, and others, after being sick for one day, died. And there were so many dead that the living couldn't bury them. That autumn, in the month of October, on the 23rd [day], Prince Ivan Ivanovich, brother of Grand Duke Dmitry, died and was laid to rest with the Archangel in [[Moscow]]. That fall and winter there was a great plague among people in [[Pereyaslavl]] (Zaleski), 20 or 30 people died a day, sometimes 60 or 70, and up to a hundred or more. The disease was as follows: first, it was like being hit by bear spear behind the shoulder blade, under the breast, or between the collarbones. And when he gets sick, he starts spitting blood and [as if] a burning fire, then he sweats, then he gets chills. And after lying for one or two days, rarely for three days, they still die, while others die because of swelling/blisters. The swelling/blisters [occurred] differently, for some it was on the neck, for another it was under the cheekbone, for another it was under the armpit, for another it was behind the shoulder blade, for another it was on the tendons. This was not only in the single town of Pereyaslavl, but also in all its estates. This [[punishment]] sent by God to men came from the lower side [from the south] from Bezdiezh<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> to Nizhnyi Novgorod, and from there to Kolomna and also to Pereyaslavl. Then in the second year there was a great and terrible plague in Moscow and in all the towns and regions. The living were unable to prepare the dead for burial, because there were dead everywhere, in towns and villages, in houses and in churches. And there was misery and pain and inconsolable weeping, for there were few living, because they were all dead. In one pit they buried 5 and 6 dead, and in another 10 or more, and many manors were empty, while in others one or two remained, either [[women]] or [[men]], or few [[children]].)
1346-00-00-Bologna + (There was a great plague in Bologna, and more than 4,000 people died, including Ms. Jacomo Bottivigari, [[Doctor]] of Law, Ms. Mraion da S. Marino Cavaliere, Salvadio Delfino, Bibozo Sava Medico.)
1284-00-00-Iceland 002 + (There was a great plague, death of livestock, and many people died of starvation, and many towns perished.)
1348-00-00-Poland + (There was a horrible plague in Poland and … There was a horrible plague in Poland and other kingdoms which resulted from the infection of the air by the Jews. And directly afterwards the earth shook. There was a grave epidemic of plague in the kingdom of Poland and a terrible mortality burst over them, not only in Poland, but also in Hungary, Bohemia, Denmark, France, Germany and pretty much the whole of Christianity and of the barbaric kingdoms where terribly shaken by the plague.gdoms where terribly shaken by the plague.)
1357-00-00-South Germany + (There was a mortality or disease in the diocese of Speyer, Bamberg, Augsburg, Regensburg and also in a part of the diocese of Konstanz in the area of the dukes of Württemberg around Stuttgart and Grüningen.)
1225-00-00-Trient + (There was a plague of animals and a fierce mortality of men.)
1231-00-00-Novgorod MLSKXVv + (There was also a plague in Novgorod ([[1231]] … There was also a plague in Novgorod ([[1231]]) due to famine. For such was the famine that many ate their brother butchering them, and others ate dead bodies, others ate [[horse]]meat and [[dog]] meat and [[cat]]s, and others moss and pine and clay and leaves, and there were so many dead that there was no one to bury them.y dead that there was no one to bury them.)
1224-00-00-Bologna + (There was great famine and starvation in this year; wheat was worth 3 lire, flour 44 lire, the Ducato was worth 30 lire; and there was a famine in the Bishop's Palace on Holy [[Thursday]], and the Stretta dell'Poveri was starved 24 people.)
1224-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (There was great heat that year [6732] and … There was great heat that year [6732] and many of the forests and mudflats burst into flames, and the smoke was heavy, unlike anything people had seen at that time. They were like fog that clung to the earth, so that the birds could not fly in the air, but fell to the ground and died. the air, but fell to the ground and died.)
1400-00-00-Florence 002 + (There was mortality in Florence that year: … There was mortality in Florence that year: about twenty thousand people died in the city, or more. Morello was podestà of Massa; and Alberto and two of his children and the wife and I stayed with him until June 7. Then I went to Volterra and stayed there for 40 days: Caterina came there. Then mortality set in and we returned to Settimello, where it was hard for a month; and there we stayed until All Saints' Day, healthy, praise be to God. Two of Morello's children died, and one of mine: God bless them! [...]During this mortality the greater part of the Florentines fled to Bologna, and there arose a conspiracy directed against many great citizens of the government.nst many great citizens of the government.)
1347-00-00-Bologna 007 + (There was so much hunger and death in Bolo … There was so much hunger and death in Bologna, that more than 4000 people died, both young and old, and many poor people were starving in the streets, and many very old people were starving, because they could not get bread for their money, although many were very rich, and these are the heads of the people who died of hunger, and their names are written here underneath, and before: Misser Jacomo di Butrigiani Donore di lege. Misser Rainiero Samaritani Chavaliero. El Salvatico Dalfino da Loiano. Misser Bertuzo Soprano Medico. Mattiuzo Bianchetto di Bianchitti. Misser Bornino di Pepoli. Misser Marchium degl'Azigreidi. Misser Lippo di Pepoli. Misser Azo di Romagno Dottore. Misser Piero di Bonpieri Dottore.Dottore. Misser Piero di Bonpieri Dottore.)
1292-00-00-Iceland 001 + (There was such a great plague all over the country that a lot of people fell ill and a great mortality followed.)