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Events in 1347 2

• 1347 – 1349 Black Death devastates Constantinople The Black Death reaches Constantinople in 1347, killing approximately half the population of the city including the son of Emperor John VI Kantakouzenos. The plague strikes an empire already weakened by civil war, Serbian expansion and Ottoman encroachment. The demographic and economic catastrophe accelerates the empire's terminal decline.
• 1347 – 1351 The Black Death in Italy Plague Outbreak The pandemic arrived in Sicily via merchant ships from the Black Sea, devastating Florence and Venice.