Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
Plague breaks out among Golden Horde forces besieging the Genoese port of Kaffa in the Crimea. Gabriele de' Mussi, writing shortly afterwards and not present, records that the besiegers catapulted corpses over the walls, and that fleeing Genoese ships carried the disease west.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- Mongol Empire · empire · not located
Evidence
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Historia de Morbo
The best-known account of plague at the siege of Kaffa in the Crimea and its carriage west by Genoese shipping. De' Mussi was not present and wrote at second hand shortly afterwards; the account is near-contemporary testimony rather than eyewitness record, and the catapulted-corpses detail in particular is debated as a transmission mechanism.
Gabriele de' Mussi, notary of Piacenza · ~1348 · Verified
Written c. 1348-1350
Recorded on Mongol Empire
- Mongol destruction of Merv
- Plague strikes the besieging army at Kaffa
- Plague reaches the Mediterranean
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