Black Death, Medieval Bubonic Plague
Woodcut of the plague, printed above a lamentable list of Death's triumphs in the weekly burials of the city of London'. The Black Death (1340-1400) was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1348-50. A pandemic is an epidemic of infectious disease that has spread through human populations across a large region (multiple continents, or even worldwide)
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