What date did the great plague start?

Answer 1

Bubonic Plague or Black Plague started in Europe around 1347. It was a terrible disease that was carried out with black rats and fleas. This terrible disease was affected the Medieval society. It was a terrible because so many peasants died and that nobody was left to farm the land and do the daily work.

The Plague (or called "Black Death") was an epidemic that struck Europe. People from China and Mongolia came with infected fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that were transported to Italy, Greece and France; when the ships docked, the rats left the ships entering cities bringing the fleas and disease with them. In 1348 the virus, known as the Yersinia pestisbacterium and until 1351 the bacterium had killed 1/3 of Europe. Leaving fewer farmers and other people that held jobs that were important to the economy. The Europeans blamed the Jews for the plague by poisoning the water but it really was caused by flea bites. Other break outs occurred between 1451-1721.

Plague is still around today in small numbers and is treated with antibiotics.

Answer 2

Black Plague and Bubonic Plague started in Europe around 1347. It was a terrible disease that was carried out with black rats and fleas. This terrible disease was affected the Medieval society. It was a terrible because so many peasants died and that nobody was left to farm the land and do the daily work.

The Plague (or called "Black Death") was an epidemic that struck Europe. People from China and Mongolia came with infected fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that were transported to Italy, Greece and France; when the ships docked, the rats left the ships entering cities bringing the fleas and disease with them. In 1348 the virus, known as the Yersinia pestisbacterium and until 1351 the bacterium had killed 1/3 of Europe. Leaving fewer farmers and other people that held jobs that were important to the economy. The Europeans blamed the Jews for the plague by poisoning the water but it really was caused by flea bites. Other break outs occurred between 1451-1721.

Plague is still around today in small numbers and is treated with antibiotics.

Answer 3

Plague or Black Plague started in Europe around 1347. It was a terrible disease that was carried out with black rats and fleas. This terrible disease was affected the Medieval society. It was a terrible because so many peasants died and that nobody was left to farm the land and do the daily work.

The Plague (or called "Black Death") was an epidemic that struck Europe. People from China and Mongolia came with infected fleas carried by rats going aboard ships and that were transported to Italy, Greece and France; when the ships docked, the rats left the ships entering cities bringing the fleas and disease with them. In 1348 the virus, known as the Yersinia pestisbacterium and until 1351 the bacterium had killed 1/3 of Europe. Leaving fewer farmers and other people that held jobs that were important to the economy. The Europeans blamed the Jews for the plague by poisoning the water but it really was caused by flea bites. Other break outs occurred between 1451-1721.

Plague is still around today in small numbers and is treated with antibiotics.

Answer 4

The great plague struck Europe in 1347. Of course, it, or rather the prime agent, Yersinia pestis, didn't just pop into existence then. The disease had been around for centuries, probably millennia, but the outbreaks had been less dramatic (actually, they continue today, but we have good medicine now). Why was that one so bad? Several reasons:

1. Trade with the East was increasing due to the Crusades, spreading diseases from areas of concentration to places where there was little natural resistence. Something quite similar happened in the Americas, when Europeans brought diseases troublesome to themselves but lethal to the previously unexposed natives.

2. Cities were crowded and unsanitary, so infection could spread rapidly.

3. The Y. pestis may have mutated into an especially virulent form.

4. Since the secondary vectors were rats, some think that a general hostility to cats deprived the population of an important form of vector control. This is debatable because cats, though effective mouse-killers, are not able to easily kill rats. The rat terrier dog (which hadn't been bred yet) would have been more effective.

Answer 5

The first plague was in 1338, the second one was in 1665.

Answer 6

Most prominent in Europe between 1347 and 1351.

First appeared in China and the East in the 1330's.

Reached Russia and Scandinavia by 1351.

Reached England by 1348.

Answer 7

In the 17th century around 1605

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Answer 8

Great Plague of London happened in 1665.