- — Europe:
The Black Death reaches England
The plague pandemic killed a large proportion of England's population within a few years, devastating communities and accelerating long-term changes in labour and society.
Era: The Norman Conquest and medieval England
Sources: The British Library: history and collections · The British Library
- — Europe:
The Black Death reaches Norway
Plague arrived by ship at Bergen and spread through the country, killing about half the population and devastating the native aristocracy and clergy, a turning point in Norwegian history.
Era: The Black Death, the Kalmar Union and the Danish Centuries
Sources: Kalmarunionen · Store norske leksikon, Norway: The Treaty of Kiel · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Catastrophe in the 14th century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged catastrophe — plague, famine, earthquake and other disasters, narrowed to the 14th century — 2 of them, drawn from 2 nations, running from 1348 to 1349. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 2
- Nations
- 2
- Earliest
- 1348
- Latest
- 1349
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.