Second plague pandemic
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The second plague pandemic was a major series of epidemics of plague that started with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the
Great Plague of London in 1665
Plague Column in Vienna was erected after the Great Plague epidemic in 1679
The Great Plague of Marseille in 1720 killed 100,000 people in the city and the surrounding provinces.
Contemporary engraving of Naples during the Naples Plague in 1656
First plague pandemic
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The first plague pandemic was the first historically recorded Old World pandemic of plague, the contagious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Also called the early medieval pandemic, it
Second plague pandemic
…with the Black Death, which reached medieval Europe in 1346 and killed up to half of the population of Eurasia in the next four years. It followed the first plague pandemic that began in the 6th century with the Plague of Justinian, which ended in the 8th century. Although the plague died out in most places after 1353, it…
Saint Sebastian pleading for the life of a gravedigger afflicted with plague during the 7th-century Plague of Pavia, by South Netherlandish painter Josse Lieferinxe ca. 1498