Black Death Arrives in Europe

Name: Black Death Arrives in Europe
Start: 1347
End: 1348

Type Event Region Mediterranean Time 1347–1348

In 1347 plague (the Black Death) reached Messina, Sicily, from Crimea aboard Genoese ships, then spread rapidly along Italy and Mediterranean ports, …

Timeline

1347Port of Messina · SicilyAccording to Catalan and Sicilian chronicles, Genoese merchant ships returning from Caffa in the Black Sea (present-day Feodosia) brought plague to Messina; after crew and cargo were unloaded at the port, the epidemic quickly broke out in the city, and authorities were forced to burn infected ships and blockade the port.
1347–1348Italian peninsula · ItalyThe epidemic spread northward from Sicily through port cities such as Genoa, Venice, and Pisa, and entered Tuscany and southern France by land; in early 1348 Florence, Marseille, Barcelona, and other cities successively reported mass deaths, marking the full outbreak of the Black Death on the European continent.

Sources

Black Death https://www.britannica.com/event/Black-Death
The Black Death: A Personal History — John Hatcher (2008)