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23 June 1348
In the spring of 1348, a bubonic plague spreads from Asia to Europe by ship. By June, The Black Death reaches Dorset where the first English people die within four days of infection. During the next 30 years, up to half the population is wiped out, from peasant farmers to the king's daughter and the archbishop of Canterbury. There are devastating outbreaks in 1350, 1361 and 1374, and again in the 1460s and 1470s. |
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