Plague - Italian traders bring the plague in rat-infested ships from Constantinople to Sicily

Time: 1347

Place: Italy

Details: Italian traders bring the plague in rat-infested ships from Constantinople to Sicily, which becomes the first place in Europe to suffer the Black death epidemic. The same year, Venice is also hit.

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