Black Death
1346–1353
Plague pandemic that killed around a third of Europe's people.
- Type
- Era
- Date
- 1346–1353
- Place
- Eurasia
Who was alive during Black Death
- Ibn Battuta 1304–c. 1369, explorer
- Petrarch 1304–1374, poet
- Giovanni Boccaccio 1313–1375, writer
- Hafez c. 1315–c. 1390, poet
- Hongwu Emperor 1328–1398, emperor
- Ibn Khaldun 1332–1406, historian
- Timur 1336–1405, conqueror
- Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1343–1400, writer
- Catherine of Siena 1347–1380, mystic