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A [[lunar eclipse]] on 8th of [[February]] (actually [https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/5MCLEmap/1301-1400/LE1365-02-06N.gif 6th]) predicts cold and wind; almost all people fall ill with [[fever]] and cough, affects wide regions like [[Apulia]], [[Bologna]], [[Marche]], [[Tuscia]] and [[Lombardy]]  +
[[Plague]] outbreak in the [[Romagna]], very close to [[Bologna]]  +
Outbreak of [[plague]] in [[Cologne]], in [[Westphalia]] and [[Hesse]].  +
A Muslim woman who had been taken prisoner by the Franks who had seized [[Alexandria]] in October [[1365]] reportedly related that after the Franks had withdrawn from the city [around October 12], an [[epidemic]] ([[wabāʾ]]) broke out among its inhabitants. The disease was caused by an odor that altered the air and by the smell emanating from the bodies of those who had been killed during the conquest and whose corpses had been lying around for too long. The maximum daily death toll exceeded 100. The woman, then, began to work as a washer of female corpses in order to earn a living.  +
Great [[cold]] in [[Florence]] and other parts of the world with many deaths.  +
Black death in [[Moscow]].  +
Following an inundation many people fall ill on a disease that would kill them within four days.  +
A wind of livanto throughout [[Italy]] that made almost all people sick and many old people died  +
Great [[plague]] in [[Lübeck]].  +
A plague in [[Moscow]] and its surroundings.  +
A plague in [[Moscow]], its surroundings and Pereyaslavl-Zalessky  +
Description of the [[symptoms]] and consequences of the [[plague]] in [[Mainz]] and a great preceding [[flood]]  +
A [[plague]] is ravaging [[Ratzeburg]] and its surroundings.  +
A deadly disease (wabāʾ) hit [[Egypt]] in 769 H (August 28, 1367 to August 15, 1368). It lasted about four months. The daily death toll reached 1,000 and more.  +
The king tried to conquer the [[Lombardy]], but without success. The [[lords of Meygelon]] flooded a river ([[Po]]?), nearly drowning the emperor's army. A plague also struck the army.  +
Five men stated before a Jerusalem notary sometime between October 12 and 21, 1369 that they knew a shaykh named ʿAlī b. Badr al-Dīn who was a resident of Jerusalem. They stated they knew that the shaykh had left [[Jerusalem]] for [[Damascus]] while an [[epidemic]] ([[ṭāʿūn]]) was raging in the latter city and its surroundings. The shaykh had left [[Jerusalem]] in the beginning of the month of Shawwāl 770 H (May 9 to June 6, 1369) with a couple of associates and had stayed in [[Damascus]] in a Sufi khanaqah for some days. The witnesses stated that he had intended to proceed from [[Damascus]] to [[Aleppo]] but that his further whereabouts were unknown to them.  +
After having been crowned empress in [[Rome]] earlier this year, [[Elisabeth (of Pomerania)]] returns to [[Prague]] on August 20 where she is ceremonially received. Because there is pestilence in [[Bohemia]], the emperor, [[Charles IV]], returns after the celebration to [[Lombardy]]. The pestilence raged during the whole year and with the greatest intensity in the regions towards [[Austria]].  +
The plague hits Austria again in 1370.  +
In this year a great pestilence occured in Bohemia and at its borders.  +
Due to the bad [[weather]] in the previous year, there was a great [[famine]] in [[Florence]]. This was fuelled by [[wars]] in [[Italy]] and a [[mortality]] of [[cattle]], which is why no livestock came to Florence.  +
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