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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.)
1211-00-00-Westfjords + (This cartulary is so old that it can hardl … This cartulary is so old that it can hardly be considered younger than the time of Bishop Páll Jónsson, and it is most likely to be attributed to the year when Bishop Páll crossed the quarter of the Westfjords; and this was in the year 1211, as it says in his story (Páls biskpus saga ch. 17; Bisk. s. I, 141). During this trip, he caught a mortal illness, and had to come to Hítardalur, where he lay for almost four weeks, and came home to Skálholt three nights before Simon's Mass (25 October). However, he got up again from his bed and read Mass last on All Saints' Day (1 November), but a few days later he fell down again, and he died in Skálholt on 29 November 1211.d he died in Skálholt on 29 November 1211.)
1420-06-15-Sens + (This day, the news came at the House that Eustache de l'Aitre, chancellor of France and newly elected bishop of Beauvais died last [[friday]] in the bishopric of Sens, because of the epidemic that raged out there.)
1347-00-00-Italy1 + (This pestilence spread into Turkey and Gre … This pestilence spread into Turkey and Greece, having first circled the Levant—Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, Syria, Cyprus, Crete, Rhodes, and all the islands of the archipelago of Greece—and then spread to Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, and Elba and in like manner to all the shores and coasts of our seas. [When] eight Genoese galleys sailed into the Black Sea, the greater part of their crews died, and only four galleys returned, full of sick men who were dying one after another. Almost all those who reached Genoa died, and so corrupted the air where they landed, that whoever met with them died shortly afterward. This was the manner of the sickness: certain swellings appeared on the groin or below the armpits, swellings which some called gavoccioli and some ghianducce and some bozze, and which oozed blood. A man could not live for more than three days after they appeared. And this pestilence often attached itself to the priests who heard the confessions of the sick, or who looked after the sick, so that the sick were deprived of confession, sacrament, medicine, and watchers. This terrible problem led the [[pope]] to issue a decree, pardoning sin and penance to those priests who confessed or gave the sacrament to the sick, and who visited and watched over them. (p. 139) And this pestilence lasted until [. . .] and many provinces and cities were desolated. And in mid-March 1347, a solemn procession was held [every day] for three days, so that the Lord God might end this pestilence and Protect our city of Florence and its surroundings. ‘Thus do the judgments of God cleanse the sins of the living. Let us leave this matter, and speak somewhat of the deeds of the newly elected Emperor Charles of Bohemia. newly elected Emperor Charles of Bohemia.)
1464-00-00-Braunschweig + (This plague began in a rather rare and unusual way, because strong men and few women died from it; but very few children.)
1348-06-01-Almeria + (This plague which has now arisen, and whic … This plague which has now arisen, and which has been enquired after, seems to me to have arisen from the first kind of causes mentioned. It appears that in most, if not in all countries, it spread through all seasons for years, without much change in the rules of the rain, the blowing of the winds in the different seasons, either from our own observation or from what we are told from other countries. The seasons change without their change apparently affecting the disease, but it always remains the same. It broke out in Almeriah at the beginning of Rabi I year 749 (1 June 1348), raged part of the spring, the whole summer until the autumn months and part of the winter until now, when my book is being written, in the middle of Di-lkifdah, that is, the first days of February. So far it has not gone, but the manifestations of God's grace can be felt, may he turn his grace to us completely very soon! All this time the nature of the illness remained the same, but it happened that the symptoms changed with the seasons. It began lightly, and at first only a few people were afflicted; then it gradually and (p. 41) slightly increased until the end of Ğumādā 2, that is, the end of September, and then it increased violently and continued with about the same severity until now. It was most merciful of God that it started so easily in Almeriah, for if it had suddenly attacked the people, as it did in other places of Islam, the inhabitants would have perished helplessly as a result of the terror.It started in a corner of the city known as Hūām, the north-east corner of Ğabala, the home of the poor and needy. The first cases were known from people called Beni Danna, and from them the disease gradually spread among the neighbours, slowly increasing and spreading to the surrounding area until it reached the outer limits of the city and then the city centre. The maximum number of deaths in one day during the entire period was 70, a number that is relatively low compared to what we have been told about other Islamic and Christian cities. Credible reporters told us that there were 1202 deaths in one day in Tunis, over 700 in Tlemcen, 1500 in Valencia on the day of the Unsorat, and 1252 on the island of Mallorca on 24 May, where the survivors were estimated at about a quarter of the total number of inhabitants. The same was reported for all larger and smaller towns.reported for all larger and smaller towns.)
1297-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia + (This summer [6806] <a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> there was a cattle plague.)
1364-00-00-Nizhny Novgorod + (This summer [[1364]] the epidemic was in Nizhny Novgorod.)
1448-00-00-Vladimir-Suzdalian Rusia? Sim + (This summer [[1448]] there was a plague on horses, other animals and people, but not much.)
1318-00-00-Tver + (This winter [6826] 1318 (and 1319?)<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> there was a plague in Tver among the people.e was a plague in Tver among the people.)
1284-00-00-Iceland 001 + (This winter [...] came a big famine over northern Iceland.)
1331-00-00-Iceland 006 + (This winter was very hard. ... Harsh weather lasted until spring, and during [[Lent]] the local livestock died from starvation and hunger.)
1331-00-00-Iceland 005 + (This winter was very harsh and the local farms lost a lot of livestock. [...] The weather began to harden and then continued the same hardiness. It came to pass that the sheep of the place were reduced to nothing through starvation.)