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[[Jews]] were burned in [[Constance]] and [[Swabia]], because they were accused of poisoning the people. This accusations was according to the author wrong. In addition the [[flagellants]] appeared.  +
The [[Black Death]] arrives in Europe, with a detailed description of [[symptoms]] and precise numbers for [[Avignon]], but also [[Venice]], [[Marseille]], [[Italy]], [[Provence]], [[Hungary]], [[France]], [[Germany]] and [[Scotland]] are mentioned  +
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]].  +
The [[Black Death]] in [[Egypt]] and other countries in 749 H (April 1, [[1348]] to March 22, [[1349]]): People were taken by surprise by the [[epidemic]] ([[wabāʾ]]) whose death toll was high. The odors of death met them. People died quickly of the disease after buboes had appeared at their earlobes (marrāq).  +
From April 1, 1348 to March 22, 1349), an unprecedented [[plague]] hit the Middle East, and lasted about a year, and one third of [[Greater Syria]]’s and Egypt’s population died.  +
Outbreak of the [[Black Death]] in [[Perugia]]; description of contempory medical responses and cultural coping mechanisms  +
Outbreak of the [[Black Death]] in [[Perugia]]; remarkable information from [[Paris]] and all across the known world via the papal court in [[Avignon]]  +
Outbreak of the [[Black Death]] in [[Perugia]]; remarkable information from [[Paris]] and all across the known world via the papal court in [[Avignon]]  +
The [[Black Death]] in [[Gaza]]: Some ten thousand people died of [[plague]] in the course of one month in Gaza in the beginning of 749 H (April-May [[1348]]) according to a report (muṭālaʿa) the gouvernor (nāʾib) of Gaza had sent to [[Damascus]].  +
The [[Black Death]] strikes [[Avignon]] and unusual mild weather combines with devastating [[frost]]s that damage [[fruit]]s and [[crops]].  +
Arivval of the [[Black Death]] in [[Venice]], [[Avignon]], [[Marseille]] and [[Messina]], with estimated victims. Two fishermen infect [[Lyon]]s. The [[plague]] is present several years and slowly moves North towards [[Germany]] and its regions up to the [[Baltic Sea]]  +
Outbreak of the [[Black Death]] causing the death of two canons of the cathedral of [[Ventimiglia]] and the city's bishop, as noted in a contemporary necrologue  +
Letter from the Venetian Senate to the city government of Ragusa ([[Dubrovnik]]) condoling for the many deaths caused by [[plague]].  +
[[Black Death]] in [[Bologna]] ravages for 5 months and kills allegedly 60% of population. City is partially abandoned afterwards and heritages remain unclaimed  +
Beginn of the [[Black Death]] in [[Bologna]].  +
The [[Black Death]] at the [[Levantine coast]] (sawāḥil): The inhabitants of [[Damascus]], after having heard about [[plague]] ([[wabāʾ]]) in the Levantine coastal plain and other regions, feared it might reach their city, too, and many people might die of the disease ([[dāʾ]]). For this reason, al-Bukhārī's (d. 870) hadith collection was recited in [[Damascus]] after [[Friday]] prayer on June 6, 1348. The judges and a group of people were present. Prayers of supplication were spoken, asking God to bring the pandemic to an end. On June 9, surah "Nūḥ" from the Quran was recited 3,363 times.  +
The [[Black Death]] ravages in [[Siena]].  +
Outbreak of the [[Black Death]] in [[Orvieto]] with a high number of deaths und many vacant houses.  +
During the [[Black Death]] in [[Perugia]] the relics of St. Florentius are found and carried around town in [[procession]]  +
Severe [[plague]] in [[Savona]] and [[Francesco Petrarca]] laments the death of his friend Francesco Albizzi, who presumably died there because of the [[plague]] in April 1348  +
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