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Using this article as a starting point, fill out this collaborative timeline in your pairs.

You will need to conduct extra research - ensure your sources are reliable, and include the links in a comment on your section.

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The Black Death moves from China and Central Asia to Europe when an army led by Mongol ruler Janibeg attacks the Genoese trading port of Kaffa (now Feodosiya) in Crimea. As infected soldiers die from the disease, Janibeg catapults their plague-infested bodies into the town to infect his enemies. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carry the epidemic westward to Mediterranean ports, quickly spreading the disease inland.

Black Death: diary The Newberry Library, Ryerson Fund, 1952 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

The plague reaches North Africa, mainland Italy, Spain, England, and France. A ship from Calais, France, carries the plague to Dorset, England, in August. It spreads to Bristol, England, almost immediately and then moves rapidly throughout the southwest counties of England.

The spread of the disease continues as it reaches Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. London feels the devastating effects of the plague most strongly between February and May. The disease persists and moves north in England.

The plague reaches the extreme north of England, Scotland, Scandinavia and the Baltic countries.

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The Black Death takes a great toll on all of Europe, claiming the lives of an estimated 25 million people by 1351, including half of the population of 100,000 in Paris, France.

Later outbreaks in 1361-63, 1369-71, and 1374-75 cause a further decline in population. With the need for labor and a drastic reduction of workers, wages rise dramatically by the 1370s.

Peasants' Revolt© Photos.com/Thinkstock

The British government attempts to make adjustments after the Black Death, setting maximum wages during the labor shortage and adding a poll tax. Economic and social tensions rise and lead to the Peasants' Revolt.

The population of England is about half what it had been 100 years earlier. The Black Death caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1,000 villages in that country alone.

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Timeline of significant events during and after the Black Death pandemic, from the arrival of the plague in Europe in 1347 to its subsequent spread throughout the continent over the next four years and the periodic recurrences of the plague in later decades of the 14th century.

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Flagellants in the Netherlands scourging themselves in atonement, believing that the Black Death is a punishment from God for their sins, 1349.       Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death     

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Each year has an assigned pair listed under it. In your pairs, you must:

describe what happened that year in the plague

include at least one form of relevant statistics, source material, or evidence

include an image

When completed, look at the work of your peers and comment any other relevant information to that year or event.

A reminder that you will be logged into your accounts, therefore, what you post and comment is public. Students are to act respectfully and maturely on discussion boards and should remember that this timeline will create a collaborative resource for the whole class.