The Black Death was present in Italy between 1347 and 1348. [1] Sicily and the Italian Peninsula was the first area in then Catholic Western Europe to be reached by the bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which reached the region by an Italian ship from the Crimea which landed in Messina in Sicily in October 1347.

February 2 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 between John VI Kantakouzenos and the regency for John V Palaiologos ends with Kantakouzenos entering Constantinople. February 26 – The Maona of Chios and Phocaea is formed to manage the overseas possessions of …

1 天前 · Galleys and cogs brought the plague in its bubonic and pneumonic forms to Messina in early October 1347. By January 1348 it had reached Genoa and Pisa, by February Venice. From these ports it spread throughout the peninsula and on to the rest of Europe. Estimates of the death toll vary between one-third and one-half of the population.

2020年10月6日 · The Bubonic Plague arrived in Europe around the year 1347, spreading from modern-day Russia. It appeared again later in the century on several occasions. Within Italy (formed of a number of states/republics in the 14th century), the Black Death made its first landfall in Sicily (1347) and then moved on to other places including Venice and Genoa.

Spread by infected galleys coming from Kaffa (Crimea), the Black Death reached Genoa, as it now seems, in the late summer of 1347 AD. Genoa functioned as an epicentre from which the contagion was spread into the mainland through a complex system of routes, which linked Liguria to northern and central Italy.

2025年3月15日 · Black Death - Bubonic Plague, Europe, 1347: The plague originated in Asia, and entered Europe in 1347 when Janibeg catapulted plague-infested corpses into the besieged port of Kaffa (now Feodosiya) in Crimea. From Kaffa, Genoese ships carried the epidemic westward to the rest of Europe, and the plague reached northern Europe by 1350.

2023年4月5日 · The Black Death of 1347 entered Europe, probably via Sicily, when it was carried there by four Genoese grain ships sailing from Caffa, on the Black Sea. The port city had been under siege by Tartar- Mongols who had catapulted infected corpses into the city, and it was there the Italians had picked up the plague.

2010年3月12日 · But then, in 1347, to the Italians' delight, their opponents began to die off at an alarming rate - Janibeg's army was overcome by the Plague. Janibeg had no choice but to call off his siege, but not until he performed one last act of warfare against Genoa.

Abstract Spread by infected galleys coming from Kaffa (Crimea), the Black Death reached Genoa, as it now seems, in the late summer of 1347 AD. Genoa functioned as an epicentre from which the conta-gion was spread into the mainland through a complex system of routes, which linked Liguria to northern and central Italy.

In 1347, a deadly disease swept across Europe. People did not know what caused it. They did not know how to treat it, either. As a result, 25 million people died within Þve years. About 40 percent of EuropeÕs population was wiped out. This terrible disease became known as …