The Black Death originated in central Eurasia ... The epidemic reach England by 1349 and Scandinavia by 1350. Historians have traced how merchant ships drove the spread of plague: busy shipping ...

The Black Death, believed to be bubonic plague, possibly mixed in with anthrax, killed between thirty and fifty percent of Europe’s population in the years 1348 and 1349. Norman Cantor writes ...

The Black Death was a serious disease that killed millions over people around the world over a period of several hundred years. It was named after the colour of the sores that grew under the skin ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe in 1349 killing half of the population, but even still, historian Michael McCormick of Harvard University argues that 536 was the worst year in human history to be ...