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Events in 1349 1
1347 – 1349Black Death devastates ConstantinopleThe 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.